Tag: Donald Richie

January 15, 2020 · 0 comments

Interview: The Inland Sea

Interview: The Inland Sea

By Jasper Sharp. Almost fifty years ago, Donald Richie, the author and cultural critic who introduced Japanese cinema to the West, embarked on an epic odyssey of self-discovery amongst the island communities between Shikoku, Honshu and Kyushu, resulting in one of his most personal and highly-regarded books, The Inland Sea (1971). Two decades later, filmmaker […]

July 4, 2019 · 0 comments

Books: A Tokyo Romance

Books: A Tokyo Romance

By Jonathan Clements. Poor boy that I am, when I arrived in Japan I did so knowing nobody and nothing – author Ian Buruma turns out to have the Hollywood director John Schlesinger for an uncle, and an oil-business bigwig with a Tokyo mansion for a “distant relative” in 1975. He also already has a […]

July 24, 2017 · 0 comments

Books: The Inland Sea

Books: The Inland Sea

By Jasper Sharp. If it weren’t for Donald Richie’s and Joseph L. Anderson’s invaluable The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (1959), the first book-length study on the subject in the English language, or Richie’s monographs The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1965) and Ozu: His Life and Films (1974), one wonders what the state of overseas appreciation […]

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