Art, Cult and Commerce: Japanese Cinema Since 2000 - Softcover

Schilling, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937220095 ISBN 13: 9781937220099

Publisher: Awai Books, 2019

Synopsis

From popular genre films to cult avant-garde works, this book is an essential guide to Japan's vibrant cinema culture. It collects two decades of the best of Mark Schilling's film writing for Variety, Japan Times, and other publications. The book offers an in-depth look at hundreds of landmark Japanese movies as well as undeservedly neglected ones. The essays and detailed analyses are interwoven with interviews showcasing Japan's most talented directors and stars. This book enables students, teachers, and lovers of Japanese cinema to make new discoveries while learning more about their favorite films.

Mark Schilling set off for Japan in 1975 to immerse himself in the culture, learn the language, and haunt the theaters. He has been there ever since. In 1989 he became a regular film reviewer for The Japan Times, and has written on Japanese film for publications including Variety, Screen International, Premier, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Japan Quarterly, Winds, Cinemaya, and Kinema Jumpo.

About this title

Review:

"Insightful. Instructive. Entertaining. Mark Schilling has written the go-to book on Japanese cinema this century."
ーRoger Pulvers, author of Peaceful Circumstances

About this edition

• Publisher: Awai Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1937220095
• ISBN 13: 9781937220099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 482
• Illustrator: Watanabe Tomoki