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1	The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated more books like this by Donald Richie Film scholars and enthusiasts will welcome this new edition of Donald Richie's incomparable study, last updated in 1984. The introduction and filmography contain new information, and Richie has added chapters on "Ran", "Dreams", "Rhapsody in August", and "Madadayo". Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. ... see all copies from $8.51! new only from $20.83! \| SVS
2	Inland Sea more books like this by Donald Richie "Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value."-"Times Literary Supplement." "Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the book shines with bright witticisms, deft characterizations of fisherfolk, merchants, monks and wistful adolescents, and keen comparisons of Japanes and Western culture." -San Francisco ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos more books like this by Donald Richie In A Hundred Years of Japanese Films, Richie offers an insider's look at the achievements of Japanese filmmakers. He begins in the late 1800s, when the industry took its inspiration from the traditional stories of Kabuki and Noh theater, and finishes in the present with the latest award-winning dramas showcased at Cannes. In between, Richie ... see all copies from $4.39! new only from $13.06! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Introducing Japan more books like this by Donald Richie From the metropolitan bustle of busy, modern Tokyo to the serenity of classical Kyoto, from the northern frontier land of snowy Hokkaido to distinctly colorful Kyushu and Okinawa in the southwest, Japan is a country of striking contrasts and frequent contradictions-geisha and baseball, the Kabuki theater and oil refineries, skyscrapers of steel ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Seven Samurai: And Other Screenplays more books like this by Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (Translator) Presents three early works from the Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa. In "The Seven Samurai" (1954) the inhabitants of a small Japanese village employ a band of roaming Samurai to defend them. This film was eventually used as a model for "The Magnificent Seven". The other screenplays featured include "Ikiru" (1952) which tells the painful and ... see all copies from $5.90! first editions
6	A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics more books like this by Donald Richie This provocative book is a tractate-a treatise-on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush" wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains ... see all copies from $6.60! new only from $6.60! \| SVS
7	Rashomon more books like this by Akira Kurosawa (Photographer), Donald Richie (Editor) "Rashomon" is one of the greatest of Japanese director Akira Kurasowa's films and the winner of the Academy Award for best foreign picture in 1952. It features Toshiru Mifune, the best-known Japanese actor in the West, as "the bandit", an accused rapist and murderer. This volume brings together the full continuity script of "Rashomon", an essay by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Introducing Tokyo more books like this by Donald Richie Tokyo is a city unrivaled. It stands on the cutting edge of the future and thrives on an inimitable blend of technology, trend, and tradition. It is a bundle of contradictions sprung from a melding of East and West. The highrises of Shinjuku may rule the skyline, but the Imperial Palace, quiet and dignified, remains the spiritual and geographic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.28! \| first editions
9	The Films of Akira Kurosawa more books like this by Donald Richie Akira Kurosawa has been the most celebrated Japanese filmmaker in history. His films such as RASHOMON, IKIRU, "SEVEN SAMURAI", and "RAN", among others, have won many international awards and have also introduced much of the Western world to Japanese cinema. Scholar Donald Richie has written what is widely considered to be the most insightful and ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $17.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 more books like this by Donald Richie, Leza A Lowitz (Editor) "Richie should be designated a living national treasure."-"Library Journal" "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."-"New York Times" "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the "gaijin," the foreigner in Japan."-"London Review of Books" "To read ... see all copies from $8.99! new only from $11.73! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Rural Japan: Radiance of the Ordinary more books like this by Linda Butler, Donald Richie (Foreword by) see all copies from $2.11! signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	A Taste of Japan more books like this by Donald Richie In recent years, Japanese food has become a welcome part of the Western eating experience, adding a new and pleasurable dimension both to dining out and cooking at home. Yet while many Westerners have eaten Japanese food and have come to appreciate it for its attractive presentation and light, delicate flavors, relatively few are well acquainted ... see all copies from $4.27! first editions
13 view cover	Old Kyoto: A Guide to Traditional Shops, Restaurants, and Inns more books like this by Diane Durston, Lucy Birmingham (Photographer), Donald Richie (Foreword by) Kyoto is recognised as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is also the repository of traditional Japanese culture: still very much alive here. Now, completely updated and revised, this lovingly written travelogue-cum-guidebook is for the traveller seeking to find the "real Kyoto". The book focuses on the family establishments that ... see all copies from $12.68! new only from $12.68! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan more books like this by Donald Richie, Arturo Silva (Compiled by) No one has written more, or more artfully, about Japan and Japanese culture than Donald Richie. Richie moved to Tokyo just after World War II. And he is still there, still writing. This book is the first compilation of the best of Richie's writings on Japan, with excerpts from his critical work on film (Richie helped introduce Japanese film to the ... see all copies from $2.62! new only from $12.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Tokyo: A View of the City more books like this by Donald Richie, Joel Sackett (Photographer) Written by an American writer on Japanese art and culture who has lived in Tokyo since 1947, this is a survey of Tokyo's architecture, fashions, nightlife and sex industry. Richie takes readers on a tour of some of the districts of Japan's capital city to provide a view of a culture and people normally hidden from outsiders. Starting from the ... see all copies from $8.33! new only from $24.25! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Zen Inklings more books like this by Donald Richie This is an introduction to Zen, its inner spirit and application to daily living. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $17.95! \| first editions
17	Prints of Marian Korn more books like this by Donald Richie, Marian Korn, Tsuguo Yanai see all copies from $9.20! new only from $62.52! \| first editions
18 view cover	A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan more books like this by Donald Richie Essays discuss the Japanese approach to life, Tokyo, symbolic systems, theater, film, television, and other amusements, and what they reveal about Japanese society. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Japan: True Stories of Life on the Road more books like this by Donald W George (Introduction by), Donald Richie, Alan Booth The tales in this collection reveal the enig matic land that lies beneath the surface of Japan, a country that simultaneously delights, astonishes, frustrates and an noys travellers. ' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Ozu: His Life and Films more books like this by Donald Richie 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. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family ... see all copies from $12.46! new only from $31.23! \| SVS
21 view cover	Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai more books like this by Donald Richie In this retelling of the famous old tale, a warrior wrestles down an enemy commander, only to discover his foe is as young as his own son. Shaken and unable to abide by his warrior duty and slay the youth, he decides to become a monk. This famous encounter between Kumagai no Jiro Naozane and Taira no Atsumori during Japan's Heike wars has been an ... see all copies from $6.78! new only from $24.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Old Kyoto: A Guide to Traditional Shops, Restaurants, and Inns more books like this by Diana Durston, Diane Durston, Donald Richie (Foreword by) This guidebook introduces the distinctive character of the old neighbourhoods of Japan's ancient capital, and pinpoints the best shops, restaurants, walks and inns. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Japanese Film Directors more books like this by Audie Bock Taking ten filmmakers, such as Oshima and Kurosawa, and following their caree chronologically has resulted in a history of Japanese film as well as a stud of each master. see all copies from $6.93! signed copies \| first editions
24	The masters' book of Ikebana: background and principles of Japanese flower arrangement more books like this by Donald Richie (Editor), Seni Ikenobo, Houn Ohara, Sofu Teshigawara, Meredith Weatherby see all copies from $28.00! first editions
25 view cover	Travels in the East more books like this by Donald Richie, Stephen Mansfield (Introduction by) Donald Richie's newest collection of travel essays explores all the corners of Asia and slightly beyond as it sweeps through Egypt, India, Bhutan, Mongolia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Thailand, Yap, and Japan. Richie is an observer and wanderer, reveling in the freedom to not be himself but always aware of his role as an outsider. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| SVS

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