Japanese Film Directors

Japanese Film Directors
Author: Audie Bock
Publisher: Kodansha
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1985
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

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.

A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors

A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors
Author: Alexander Jacoby
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013-02-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1611725313

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.

My Life as a Filmmaker

My Life as a Filmmaker
Author: Satsuo Yamamoto
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0472053337

A riveting autobiography of Yamamoto Satsuo (1910-83), one of the most important and critically acclaimed postwar Japanese film directors

Contemporary Japanese Film

Contemporary Japanese Film
Author: Mark Schilling
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 401
Release: 1999-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0834804158

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.

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films

The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films
Author: Salvador Jiménez Murguía
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2016-07-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1442261676

Although the horror genre has been embraced by filmmakers around the world, Japan has been one of the most prolific and successful purveyors of such films. From science fiction terrors of the 1950s like Godzilla toviolentfilms like Suicide Circle and Ichi the Killer, Japanese horror film has a diverse history. While the quality of some of these films has varied, others have been major hits in Japan and beyond, frightening moviegoers around the globe. Many of these films—such as the Ringu movies—have influenced other horror productions in both Asia and the United States. The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films covers virtually every horror film made in Japan from the past century to date. In addition to major and modest productions, this encyclopedia also features entries on notable directors, producers, and actors. Each film entry includes comprehensive details, situates the film in the context and history of Japanese horror cinema, and provides brief suggestions for further reading. Although emphasizing horror as a general theme, this encyclopedia also encompasses other genres that are associated with this theme, including Comedy Horror, Science Fiction Horror, Cyber-punk Horror, Ero Guru (Erotic Grotesque), and Anime Horror. The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films is a comprehensive reference volume that will appeal to both cinema scholars as well as to the many fans of this popular genre.

Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film

Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film
Author: Chris Desjardins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780755695515

"Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation cinema from the early 1950s through to the late 1970s, and up to the present day. Having unique access to the top maverick filmmakers and Japanese genre film icons, Chris D. brings together interviews with, and original writings on, the lives and films of such transgressive directors as Kinji Fukasaku ("Battles Without Honour and Humanity"), Seijun Suzuki ("Branded to Kill") and Koji Wakamatsu ("Ecstasy of the Ange."

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema
Author: Jasper Sharp
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2011-10-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810875411

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.

The Japanese Film

The Japanese Film
Author: Joseph L. Anderson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0691187460

Tracing the development of the Japanese cinema from 1896 (when the first Kinetoscope was imported) through the golden ages of film in Japan up to today, this work reveals the once flourishing film industry and the continuing unique art of the Japanese film. Now back in print with updated sections, major revaluations, a comprehensive international bibliography, and an exceptional collection of 168 stills ranging over eight decades, this book remains the unchallenged reference for all who seek a broad understanding of the aesthetic, historical, and economic elements of motion pictures from Japan.

Something Like An Autobiography

Something Like An Autobiography
Author: Akira Kurosawa
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-07-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 030780321X

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

Kitano Takeshi

Kitano Takeshi
Author: Aaron Gerow
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1838716637

Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano's films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the author relates the director to issues of contemporary cinema, Japanese national identity, and globalism.