• Japanese Cinema

    Exploring the work of the greatest Japanese filmmakers Until recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very narrow prism. For years, Westerners interested in Japanese film had to content themselves with the collected works of Akira Kurosawa, a spotty sampling of films by Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu, gobs of anime, and badly dubbed monster movies. Many great filmmakers like Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita have remained unknown in the West, and Japanese musicals and comedies are hardly known outside Asia. This volume sets the record straight, illustrating an in-dep... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 3822831565
    • ASIN: 3822831565
    • ISBN: 3822831565
    • Manufacturer: TASCHEN

  • A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos

    The authoritative guide to Japanese film, completely revised and updated.Now available in paperback for the first time, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie, the foremost Western expert on Japanese film, gives us an incisive, detailed, and fully illustrated history of the country's cinema.Called "the dean of Japan's arts critics" by Time magazine, Richie takes us from the inception of Japanese cinema at the end of the nineteenth century, through the achievements of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu, then on to the notable works of contemporary filmmakers. This revised edition includes ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1568364393
    • ASIN: 1568364393
    • ISBN: 1568364393
    • Brand: Kodansha
    • Manufacturer: Kodansha International

  • JAPANESE CINEMA ENCYCLOPEDIA: SEX FILMS


    • ASIN: 1889288527
    • ASIN: 1889288527
    • ISBN: 1889288527
    • Manufacturer: Vital Books

  • Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Horror, Fantasy, and Sci Fi Films

    Those familiar with the author's previous forays into the world of Hong Kong Cinema and Spaghetti Westerns will know pretty much what to expect here, and it falls far short of any dictionary definition of "essential". Short, cursory capsule reviews, short on insight, style and cultural context and high on typographical and factual errors, accompanied by an arbitrary star rating from one to four. The main virtue of Weisser's self-published book is its rigorously completist approach. Even though it states that it is not the aim to include every single film from Japan ever released, with separate... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1889288519
    • ASIN: 1889288519
    • ISBN: 1889288519
    • Brand: Brand: Vital Books, Inc.
    • Manufacturer: Vital Books, Inc.

  • The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema

    In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion became naturalized as the representation of beauty in Japanese films, situating Japanese cinema within transnational film history. He examines the significant roles lighting played in distinguishing the styles of Japanese film from American and European film and the ways that lighting facilitated the formu... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0822354225
    • ASIN: 0822354225
    • ISBN: 0822354225
    • Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

  • The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture


    • ASIN: 0834803801
    • ASIN: 0834803801
    • ISBN: 0834803801
    • Manufacturer: Weatherhill

  • Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society)

    The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions. Arguing that Kurosawa’s ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00HFFCGI2
    • ASIN: B00HFFCGI2
    • Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

  • Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema

    Kenji Mizoguchi is one of the three acclaimed masters - together with Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa - of Japanese cinema. 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 twentieth century.Born at the end of the nineteenth 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 elder sister was obliged to enter a geisha house to support the family. Her ea... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1847882307
    • ASIN: 1847882307
    • ISBN: 1847882307
    • Brand: Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
    • Manufacturer: Berg Publishers

  • The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 Through 1994

    This encyclopedia reference work treats a near-century's worth of Japanese films released in the United States in theaters or on video and the important actors, directors, producers and technical personnel involved in them.

    • ASIN: 0786400323
    • ASIN: 0786400323
    • ISBN: 0786400323
    • Manufacturer: McFarland Publishing

  • Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation

    Samurai from Outer Space is the first book-length discussion of the suddenly popular genre of Japanese animation. Japanese animation, also known as anime (pronounced AH-nee-may), is gaining devoted fans of all ages and nationalities. A few years ago anime was something of an oddity. Now it is poised to become the biggest cultural import since PBS discovered the BBC. There are anime fan clubs on college campuses across the country, as well as anime fan magazines and anime sections in video stores."Besides examining the psychological reasons for the cartoons' appeal, (Levi) compares anime to Ame... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812693329
    • ASIN: 0812693329
    • ISBN: 0812693329
    • Brand: KLO80
    • Manufacturer: Open Court

  • Japanese Movie Billboards: Retro Art from a Century of Cinema

    Rare book

    • ASIN: 1932897283
    • ASIN: 1932897283
    • ISBN: 1932897283
    • Brand: Brand: DH Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Dh Pub Inc

  • TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion

    Patrick Macias' TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. TokyoScope is the first book of its kind: an elegantly designed, engagingly written introduction to the world of Japanese pop films covering Godzilla, karate, gangster, horror, Japan's infamous "pink" movies, and more. Did you know that Samuel L. Jackson's Biblical speech in Pulp Fiction was borrowed from the brain-damaged Sonny Chiba karate flick The Bodyguard? Or that the design for the Smog Monster in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster was based on a bathroom sketch of female anatomy? TokyoScope is a densely packed and illustrated vol... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1569316813
    • UPC: 782009089230
    • ASIN: 1569316813
    • ISBN: 1569316813
    • Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC

  • Japanese Movie Posters: Yakuza, Monster, Pink, and Horror

    Accessible, fun, and colorful world of snarling gangsters, fire-breathing lizards, and animated dreams full of humor and wonder. While high-art Japanese cinema has been documented and analyzed in the West, popular and cult Japanese movies have remained largely unexplored. The fantastic vintage posters that drew the masses to Kurosawa's samurai flicks, Godzilla, and sexy Pink movies are now available to US audiences. Featuring genre classics and funky retro designs, as well as Anime, Sci-Fi and New Cinema, Japanse Movie Posters also offers irreverent commentary by poster and movie experts, as w... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0972312455
    • ASIN: 0972312455
    • ISBN: 0972312455
    • Brand: Brand: DH Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Dh Pub Inc

  • It's All About the Style: A Survey of Martial Arts Styles Depicted in Chinese Cinema

    (Taken from the Foreword) Ever watch a kung fu movie and wonder if the style being used is a true martialart or not? Or perhaps, is that a real weapon? Is there a difference between a three sectional staff, a two sectional staff and nun-chaku? Is there such a thing as blind white leopard fist? These are questions I've asked myself and friends many times (well, not about the leopard fist, I just made that up) and never got an answer. My next question was usually “why isn't there a book about these things?”Now there is one.

    • ASIN: 1515037991
    • ASIN: 1515037991
    • ISBN: 1515037991
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  • Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand

    Asian Extreme cinema is hot, and this book lays it out in all its gory glory. Patrick Galloway, who last looked at samurai movies in his well-received Stray Dogs and Lone Wolves, now takes on Asian masters of suspense, exploitation, the supernatural, and bone-chilling, blood-curdling fear and evil. The films featured here are pan-Asian, including Korea and Thailand, and represent a mix of classics and the contemporary cutting edge. Included are viewing tips and overviews of genres and cultures."Galloway has all sorts of interesting insights and facts that'll make you want to rewatch your favor... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1933330120
    • ASIN: 1933330120
    • ISBN: 1933330120
    • Brand: Brand: Stone Bridge Press
    • Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press

  • Cinema Paradiso (DVD)

    A Sicilian boy discovers the movies with his local theater's projectionist. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Oscar for best foreign-language

    • UPC: 55455334
    • Color: YOther

  • Flowers of Perversion : The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco

    The disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jesús "Jess" Franco, director of such films as Vampyros Lesbos and Lilian the Perverted

    • UPC: 56072347

  • Andrea Bocelli - Cinema: Special Edition (DVD)

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    • UPC: 55370024
    • Model: MCMD02489509D

  • Cinema Paradiso (Blu-ray)

    A Sicilian boy discovers the movies with his local theater's projectionist. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Oscar for best foreign-language

    • UPC: 55400030
    • Model: MVDBRAA001

  • Georges Melies: The First Wizard of Cinema (1896 - 1913) (DVD)

    This early wizard of modern filmmaking set a tempo for things to come. This collection celebrates 173 rare, original silent films by Georges Meliess, painstakingly gathered by Eric Lange and David Shepard, including his first

    • UPC: 55440436

  • Cinema Paradiso-New Version (DVD)

    Cinema Paradiso - The New Version

    • UPC: 2021058
    • Color: YOther

  • Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema (Blu-ray)

    Big house, u.s.a. (1955) bullet for joey, a (1955) he ran all the way (1951) storm fear (1955) witness to murder

    • UPC: 54652207
    • Model: KICBRK20363
    • Color: .Other

  • Cinema Archives Set: Clifton Webb (DVD)

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    • UPC: 46998563

  • URBAN ACTION CINEMA DVD NLA (DVD)

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    • UPC: 10983146
    • Color: YOther
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Classic Cinema (DVD)

    Collectors tin featuring six cinema greats on two DVDs! All-star cast includes Elizabeth Taylor, David Niven, Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, and more! The Last Time I Saw Paris stars Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Donna Reed,

    • UPC: 19795553
    • Color: YOther

  • Joe Hisaishi Best Of Cinema Music CD Ghibli

    • UPC: 112584386190
    • Category: CDs
    • Price: 87 USD

  • A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Cinema

    Top 10 Movies from Japan

    5 Japanese Movies you won't Ever Forget -||- Watch and Enjoy