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Title: A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie, Paul Schrader ISBN: 4-7700-2682-X Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but...
Comment: Make it past the cover - half a century of cinemagoing to his name, and Richie chooses the second-rate 'Gohatto'! - and most of what follows is highly recommended. But on page 246 Richie turns his attention to anime (Japanese animation), and soon finds space for the reactionary opinions of critic Kenji Sato (who bemoans "the thin, insubstantial reality of animation", dismissing everything from Starewicz to 'The Simpsons' in a half-dozen words) as well as several mistakes: Hayao Miyazaki's 'Princess Mononoke' is set in the Muromachi period (1392-1573), not "pre-history" (p.277); its American release was in 1999, not 2000 (p.251); and the original comic-book version of Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira' runs to six volumes, not four (p.250).
(Out of respect, I won't list the book's spelling errors. Suffice to say that they are there, as is a whopping historical blooper: I was in Japan when the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult nerve-gassed the Tokyo subway, and it wasn't in 1994!)
Understand that I'm not a fan of anime - most of it is cheap and/or nasty (though no more insubstantial than the average Hollywood blockbuster) - I'm a fan of Miyazaki, whose films are as superior to 'Pocket Monsters' as '2001: A Space Odyssey' is to 'The Adventures of Pluto Nash'. He is one of the most acclaimed directors in Japan today, not to mention the most popular. Richie does not have to be happy about this; he could at least acknowledge it. (According to the index, Miyazaki's latest masterpiece, the award-winning 'Spirited Away', is mentioned on p.251 - but turn to this page and there's nothing!)
Five out of five for the first 245 pages, minus one star for what's after that (from this point on it's the book that's thin and insubstantial, not animation) and another for shockingly sloppy proofreading.
Rating: 5
Summary: A richly detailed history of great Japanese films
Comment: Written by Donald Richie (who was cited as "the dean of Japan's art critics" by Time magazine), A Hundred Years Of Japanese Film: A Concise History, With A Selective Guide To Videos And DVDs is a selective yet richly detailed history of great Japanese films, generously illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film focuses primarily on live-action movies, with only a brief look at Japanese documentaries and animated movies. For a scholarly, thoughtful, in-depth analysis on just about every classic Japanese movie, as well as a meaningful overview about the genre as a whole, A Hundred Years Of Japanese Film is clearly and justifiably the principle reference to consult!
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Title: Contemporary Japanese Film by Mark Schilling ISBN: 0834804158 Publisher: Weatherhill Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Japanese Film by Joseph L. Anderson, Donald Richie ISBN: 0691007926 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 1983 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title:Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection ASIN: B00005JLV7 Publisher: Criterion Collection Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $32.76 |
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Title: Ozu by Donald Richie ISBN: 0520032772 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: July, 1977 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:Ikiru - Criterion Collection ASIN: B00005JLMU Publisher: Criterion Collection Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $32.76 |
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