Kon Ichikawa (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs)
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Description
Prominent scholars discuss the films of acclaimed Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.Kon Ichikawa (b. 1915) has long been inter-nationally 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 sati...
ISBN(s)
0968296939, 9780968296936
