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Author : Audie Bock
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UVA:X001122220
Taking ten filmmakers, such as Oshima and Kurosawa, and following their caree chronologically has resulted in a history of Japanese film as well as a stud of each master.
Author : Alexander Jacoby
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781611725315
This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching. Included are artistic profiles of everyone from Yutaka Abe to Isao Yukisada, including masters like Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoji Yamada. Each entry includes a critical summary and filmography, making this book an essential reference and guide. UK-based Alexander Jacoby is a writer and researcher on Japanese film.
Author : Satsuo Yamamoto
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472053339
A riveting autobiography of Yamamoto Satsuo (1910-83), one of the most important and critically acclaimed postwar Japanese film directors
Author : Mark Schilling
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780834804159
This comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive essays provide an overview of some of the key issues and themes of the decade, and provide background and context for the treatment of individual films and artists. In Mark Schilling's view, Japanese film is presently in a period of creative ferment, with a lively independent sector challenging the conventions of the industry mainstream. Younger filmmakers are rejecting the stale formulas that have long characterized major studio releases, reaching out to new influences from other media—television, comics, music videos, and even computer games—and from both the West and other Asian cultures. In the process they are creating fresh and exciting films that range from the meditative to the manic, offering hope that Japanese film will not only survive but thrive as it enters the new millennium.
Author : Keiko I. McDonald
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780824840372
Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made. In her introduction, Keiko McDonald presents a historical overview and outlines a unified approach to film analysis. Sixteen "readings" of films currently available on DVD with English subtitles put theory into practice as she considers a wide range of work, from familiar classics by Ozu and Kurosawa to the films of a younger generation of directors.
Author : Jasper Sharp
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810875418
The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema's long history of production and considerable output has seen films made in a variety of genres, including melodramas, romances, gangster movies, samurai movies, musicals, horror films, and monster films. It has also produced some of the most famous names in the history of cinema: Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Beat Takeshi, Toshirô Mifune, Godzilla, The Ring, Akira, Rashomon, and Seven Samurai. The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema is an introduction to and overview of the long history of Japanese cinema. It aims to provide an entry point for those with little or no familiarity with the subject, while it is organized so that scholars in the field will also be able to use it to find specific information. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, and appendixes of films, film studios, directors, and performers. The cross-referenced dictionary entries cover key films, genres, studios, directors, performers, and other individuals. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Japanese cinema.
Author : Woojeong Joo
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474424547
A re-interpretation of the master of Japanese cinema from a socio-historical perspectiveOne of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked during a period of immense turbulence for Japan and its population. This book offers a new interpretation of Ozus career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozus depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and economic resurgence. Firmly situating him within the context of the Japanese film industry, Woojeong Joo examines Ozus work as a studio director and his relation to sound cinema, and looks in-depth at his wartime experiences and his adaptation to post-war Japanese society. Drawing on Japanese materials not previously examined in western scholarship, this is a ground-breaking new study of a master of cinema.Case studies include:Ozus shAshimin films Ozus wartime films, including the script of The Flavour of Green Tea over RicePostwar script of The Moon Has RisenTokyo Story
Author : Akira Kurosawa
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1578069971
This work includes the collected interviews with the first Japanese film director to become widely known in the West when his film "Rashomon" won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951.
Author : Akira Kurosawa
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307803214
Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefs on the primacy of a good script, on scriptwriting as an essential tool for directors, on directing actors, on camera placement, and on the value of steeping oneself in literature, from great novels to detective fiction." --Variety "For the lover of Kurosawa's movies...this is nothing short of must reading...a fitting companion piece to his many dynamic and absorbing screen entertainments." --Washington Post Book World
Author : Tadao Sato
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131733318
Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters--together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa--of Japanese cinema. Ten years in the making, Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema is the definitive guide to the life and work of one of the greatest film-makers of the 20th century. Born at the end of the 19th Century into a wealthy family, Mizoguchi's early life influenced the themes he would take up in his work. His father's ambitious business ventures failed and the family fell into poverty. His mother died and his beloved sister was sold into a geisha house. Her earnings paid for Mizoguchi's education. Weak and deluded men, and strong, self-sacrificing women--these were to become the obsessive motifs of Mizoguchi's films. Mizoguchi's apprenticeship in cinema was peculiarly Japanese. His concerns--the role of women and the realist representation of the inequities of Japanese society--were not. Through two World Wars, Japan's culture changed. Though censored, Mizoguchi continued to produce films. It was only in the 1950s that Mizoguchi's astonishing cinematic vision became widely known outside Japan. Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema tells the full story of this famously perfectionist, even tyrannical, director. Mizoguchi's key films, cinematographic techniques and his social and aesthetic concerns are all discussed and set in the context of Japan's changing popular and political culture.
Author : Donald Richie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520032772
"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
Author : Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0822325195
This work will become not only the newly definitive study of Kurosawa, but will redefine the field of Japanese cinema studies, particularly as the field exists in the west.
Author : David Desser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118955345
Go beyond Kurosawa and discover an up-to-date and rigorous examination of historical and modern Japanese cinema In A Companion to Japanese Cinema, distinguished cinematic researcher David Desser delivers insightful new material on a fascinating subject, ranging from the introduction and exploration of under-appreciated directors, like Uchida Tomu and Yoshimura Kozaburo, to an appreciation of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema from the point of view of little-known stars and genres of the 1950s. This Companion includes new resources that deal in-depth with the issue of gender in Japanese cinema, including a sustained analysis of Kawase Naomi, arguably the most important female director in Japanese film history. Readers will appreciate the astute material on the connections and relationships that tie together Japanese television and cinema, with implications for understanding the modern state of Japanese film. The Companion concludes with a discussion of the Japanese media’s response to the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the nation. The book also includes: A thorough introduction to the History, Ideology, and Aesthetics of Japanese cinema, including discussions of Kyoto as the cinematic center of Japan and the Pure Film Movement and modern Japanese film style An exploration of the background to the famous story of Taki no Shiraito and the significant and underappreciated contributions of directors Uchida Tomu, as well as Yoshimura Kozaburo A rigorous comparison of old and new Japanese cinema, including treatments of Ainu in documentary films and modernity in film exhibition Practical discussions of intermediality, including treatments of scriptwriting in the 1930s and the influence of film on Japanese television Perfect for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students studying Japanese and Asian cinema, A Companion to Japanese Cinema is a must-read reference for anyone seeking an insightful and contemporary discussion of modern scholarship in Japanese cinema in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Author : Alastair Phillips,Julian Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134334216
Japanese Cinema includes twenty-four chapters on key films of Japanese cinema, from the silent era to the present day, providing a comprehensive introduction to Japanese cinema history and Japanese culture and society. Studying a range of important films, from Late Spring, Seven Samurai and In the Realm of the Senses to Godzilla, Hana-Bi and Ring, the collection includes discussion of all the major directors of Japanese cinema including Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Oshima, Suzuki, Kitano and Miyazaki. Each chapter discusses the film in relation to aesthetic, industrial or critical issues and ends with a complete filmography for each director. The book also includes a full glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography of readings on Japanese cinema. Bringing together leading international scholars and showcasing pioneering new research, this book is essential reading for all students and general readers interested in one of the world’s most important film industries.
Author : Joan Mellen
Publisher : Liveright Publishing Corporation
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0871406047
Kurosawa speaks of his motives and the evolution of such films as Seven Samurai and High and Low. Shinoda discusses his sense of the need for a Japanese Ingmar Bergman. Ichikawa explores the impact of Walt Disney on his work. Oshima, often called Japan's Godard, stresses the differences and conflict between his generation and that of Kurosawa. Sachiko Hidari, the acclaimed actress and wife of Susumu Hani, gives a compelling description of the plight of the Japanese woman, and Susumu Hani offers a frank account of his experiments in filmmaking, which make the French New Wave appear stodgy. Mellen sees Japan as "an irrepressibly intense and vital culture." Its artists are wary of the direction which post-war Japan has taken, and they are attempting to move away from an authoritarian tradition. Voices from the Japanese Cinema provides new insights into the inner concerns of Japan's great film directors and performers.
