This study examines the work of Akira Kurosawa, one of the century's greatest film directors. It discusses his choice of themes,... Læs mere
The classic travel journal, a quest for personal discovery and the ancient beauties and dying values of modern Japan.
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.
Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese