Donald Richie
Donald Richie is perhaps best known as the leading Western authority on the Japanese film and has lived in Japan since 1947. Author of the definitive works on Kurosawa and Ozu, his most recent is A Hundred Years of Japanese Film . He also writes on other aspects of Japan and is the author of thirty books and dozens of essays. Richie is especially well-known for his travel memoir The Inland Sea which has been adapted into a popular PBS documentary. His best-known collection is The Donald Richie...See more
Donald Richie is perhaps best known as the leading Western authority on the Japanese film and has lived in Japan since 1947. Author of the definitive works on Kurosawa and Ozu, his most recent is A Hundred Years of Japanese Film . He also writes on other aspects of Japan and is the author of thirty books and dozens of essays. Richie is especially well-known for his travel memoir The Inland Sea which has been adapted into a popular PBS documentary. His best-known collection is The Donald Richie Reader, which contains 50 years of his writings on Japan See less
Donald Richie's Featured Books
Donald Richie book reviews
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The Honorable Visitors
Unique
by Edward G, Aug 25, 2012
Essays regarding the early visitors to Japan after the 'opening' of the country. Wide range of persons; lovers and haters .. U. S. Grant, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Loti, Isabella Bird, Charley Chaplin, ... Read More
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The Inland Sea
A View Inward and Back
by JohnHW, May 14, 2009
'Inland Sea' is an account of a journey made by
expatriate Richie into the heart of rural & small-
island Japan. He speaks the language well enough
to learn much the casual traveler cannot, and ... Read More
