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Kon Ichikawa

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Edited by James Quandt
416 pages
Cinematheque Ontario Monographs

Kon Ichikawa has long been internationally acknowledged as one of the most accomplished and prolific masters of Japanese cinema, in the exalted company of Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Yasujiro Ozu. Celebrated for his many adaptations of famous Japanese novels such as Fires on the Plain, Harp of Burma, Kagi, Conflagration, and The Makioka Sisters, Ichikawa is an artist with an astounding command of many genres, forms and tones, from ferociously humanist war films to sophisticated social satires, formalist documentaries (the acclaimed Tokyo Olympiad) to extravagant period pieces (An Actor’s Revenge.)

This volume, designed to accompany a retrospective of Ichikawa’s films, spans his entire career and includes essays and commentaries by such leading scholars of Japanese cinema as Donald Richie, Tadao Sato, Max Tessier, David Desser, Linda Erlich, and Keiko McDonald. Many articles and translations were commissioned for the book, including those by Tony Rayns, Aaron Gerow, Dennis Washburn and Catherine Russell. A new career interview with critic Mark Schilling is one of several illuminating discussions with the director included in this volume. Appraisals of Ichikawa by novelist Yukio Mishima, director Yasuzo Masumura, and critic Pauline Kael round out the portrait of a director prized for his elegant compositional style, venomous wit, and unerring humanism.

James Quandt is the senior programmer at TIFF Cinematheque (née Cinematheque Ontario), where over the last two decades he has organized international traveling retrospectives dedicated to the work of Robert Bresson, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, Mikio Naruse, Nagisa Oshima, and Shohei Imamura, and has edited books about Bresson, Imamura, Ichikawa, and, most recently, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He has published widely and is a regular contributor to ArtForum International Magazine. His honours include the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French government for contributions to French cinema and the Special Prize for Arts and Culture from the Japan Foundation for his outstanding contribution to international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries.

Title: Kon Ichikawa

Format: Paperback

Product dimensions: 416 pages, 9" H x 6" W x 1" L

Shipping dimensions: 416 pages, 9" H x 6" W x 1" L

Published: May 24, 2001

Publisher: Toronto International Film Festival

Language: English

ISBN: 9780968296936


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Kon Ichikawa

$17.95
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