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Speaker: Donald Richie, author: The Inland Sea, Ozu, A Lateral View, ...
Donald Richie is widely regarded as the pre-eminent Western authority on Japanese cinema, a reputation that was first established by the publication of The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (Tuttle, 1959, and Princeton Univ. Press, 1982) by Richie and Joseph L. Anderson. Among the eight books on Japanese cinema that Richie has written are definitive studies of the films of the directors Yasujiro Ozu, Ozu: His Life and Films (Univ. of California Press, 1974) and Akira Kurosawa, The Films of Akira Kurosawa (Univ. of California Press, 1965 and 1998). Richie's worldwide reputation as a Japanese film critic was most recently reinforced by the publication of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to Videos and DVDs (Kodansha International, 2001). Donald Richie is perhaps best known to members of the English-speaking public as the author of The Inland Sea (Weatherhill, 1971, and Stone Bridge Press, 2002), a travel memoir that was adapted in 1992 into an award-winning PBS documentary. Japanophiles have for years been entertained and enlightened by his sometimes funny and always lucid essays on contemporary Japanese and aspects of contemporary Japan, some of the best of which have been collected in A Lateral View (Japan Times, 1987, and Stone Bridge Press, 2001). To members of the English-reading public in Tokyo, Richie is also well known as the author of weekly book reviews that have appeared since 1972 in "The Asian Bookshelf" column of The Japan Times. A selection of Donald Richie's book reviews, Japanese Literature Reviewed (ICG Muse, 2003), evidences the range and depth of his knowledge of literature and cinema, both Japanese and Western. Donald Richie's works of fiction are generally less well known to customers of Good Day Books than are his other writings, in part because only two of his book-length works of fiction are now in print: Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai (Tuttle, 1999), an historical novel-cum-intellectual-autobiography; and A View from the Chuo Line and other stories (Printed Matter Press, 2004), a collection of short stories. As the first of our BOOKNOTES presentations to celebrate works of fiction, Donald Richie will read aloud and comment on two of the short stories from A View from the Chuo Line and other stories, one a short story that derives from an event in his life, the other a short story that does not. After reading and commenting on each short story, Mr. Richie will field questions on writing fiction from members of the audience. Your ticket for admission to Donald Richie's reading/tutorial will be a signed copy of either Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai or A View from the Chuo Line and other stories, bought from our shop. Signed hardcover copies of the former and signed paperback copies of the latter may be purchased at Good Day Books for ¥1995 and ¥1575 each, respectively, tax included, while our supply lasts (SOLD OUT). Those who have not had the pleasure of meeting him in person or through one of his forty-odd books or hundreds of essays and book reviews may wish to read the profile of Richie that appeared in Metropolis Issue #504 (21 November 2003)(http://metropolis.japantoday.com). A fuller view of Donald Richie may be obtained from the sensitively selected writings that appear in The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Signed copies of all of the books mentioned in this thumbnail sketch, as well as several books by Richie that are not mentioned, may be purchased at Good Day Books. |
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