Donald Richie
Birthday: 1924-04-17
Place of Birth: Lima, Ohio, USA
Biography: Donald Richie was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema. Although he considered himself primarily a film historian, Richie also directed a number of experimental films. (Wikipedia)
Movies
Rikyu
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...
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A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki
Using rare archival footage and interviews with noted artists, philosophers, and scholars such as Hu...
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Under the Skin
A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adac...
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Emotion
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi...
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I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f...
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Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences
A documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece....
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Tokyo 1958
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing c...
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The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers a...
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The Inland Sea
In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations ...
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Teshigahara and Abe
A 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring ...
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