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Speaker: Donald Richie, author of The Inland Sea, A Lateral View, Ozu, ... 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 Ozu Yasujiro, Ozu: His Life and Films (Univ. of California Press, 1974) and Kurosawa Akira, 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 and 2005). 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" feature in 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, 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 three book-length works of his fiction are now in print: Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai (Tuttle, 1999), an historical novel-cum-intellectual-autobiography; A View from the Chuo Line and other stories (Printed Matter Press, 2004), a collection of short stories; and Tokyo Nights (Olive Press, 1988 and Printed Matter Press, 2005), a humorous account of nightlife in Tokyo during the go-go 1980s. In only the second of our BOOKNOTES presentations to celebrate works of fiction, Donald Richie will read aloud from and comment on his novels Tokyo Nights and Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai. After his presentation, Mr. Richie will field questions on writing novels from members of the audience. Your ticket for admission to Donald Richie's BOOKNOTES presentation will be a signed copy of either his recently re-issued modernist novel Tokyo Nights or his historical novel Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai, bought from our shop. Signed paperback copies of Tokyo Nights and signed hardcover copies of Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai may be purchased at Good Day Books for ¥1575 and ¥1785 each, respectively, tax included, while our supplies last. (SOLD OUT) Those who would like to learn more about Donald Richie may wish to read articles that appeared in Metropolis Issue #504 http://metropolis.japantoday.com/tokyo/504/feature.asp on November 21, 2003 and Issue #596 http://metropolis.japantoday.com/tokyo/596/feature.asp on August 26, 2005. A much fuller view of Donald Richie than provided by the present sketch 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 the present sketch, as well as several books by Richie that are not mentioned, may be purchased at Good Day Books. |
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