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The Donald Richie reader, 50 years of writing on Japan, Donald Richie ; compiled, edited, and with an introduction by Arturo Silva

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The great mirror : an introduction to Donald Richie -- Prologue. Intimacy and distance: on being a foreigner in Japan ; Prose of departure : a memoir -- Japan : early. August 14, 1947 : festival of the dead ; 1947 : Fuji from Ginza ; Tadashi Nakajima : festival of darkness ; Japanese shapes -- Japan : film. 1960 : becoming a film critic ; January 11, 1960 : the film book party ; Ozu ; Buddhism and the film -- Japan : people. Pierre Loti ; Chishu Ryu ; Toshiro Mifune ; Shozo Kuroda ; Hisako Shiraishi ; Hanako Watanabe -- Japan : fiction. A view from the Chuo Line ; Commuting ; Magic show ; Tanabata ; Five Zen inklings ; Tokyo nights ; High school girls ; The stone cat ; The silicate filter -- Japan : later. The "real" Disneyland ; Walking in Tokyo ; The street : notes on construction ; Hiroshima ; I like myself here ; The "best books" on Japan ; The sex market: the commercialization of a commodity ; TV : the presentational image -- Epilogue. The nourishing void ; Japan : a half century of change ; New Year's 1999

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