Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People
by Donald Richie
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The private collections of longtime Japan resident and expert on modern Japanese culture Donald Richie capture the personalities of certain Japanese people some famous, some unknown with insight and humor. This extraordinary collection of individual portraits is perhaps the first book about the Japanese to view them entirely unhindered by the various theories about them people as complicated, as simple, as inscrutable, and as understandable as anyone else. In these fifty four pieces there show more are both the famous Mishima, Kawabata, Mifune, Kurosawa-and the unknown: the would be geisha, the ex boxer turned gangster, the scheming bar madame and the old man dying alone. Here is the notorious Sada Abe, who mutilated her dead lover and whose story was filmed in Oshima's The Realm of the Senses... And here is Oshima himself, dead drunk and making perfect sense; here is the actress who played Abe, exiled in Rome. Here too is the delivery boy who kills himself for love, the girl who loved a Korean, and the actress, a public idol, who suddenly and permanently disappeared from view. show lessTags
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I really loved this book. It was given to me by my Uncle because I have always been interested in the Japanese culture. This book helps you to understand Japan and its people, it also has amazing stories that are some of the most interesting I have ever read!
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- Canonical title
- Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People
- Original publication date
- 1987; 1991 (2nd) (2nd); 1996 (3rd) (3rd); 2005 (4th) (4th)
- Important places
- Japan
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- First ed. under the title Different people: pictures of some Japanese; second ed. under the title Geisha, gangster, neighbor, nun: scenes from Japanese lives; third enlarged ed. under the title Public people, private people: ... (show all)portraits of some Japanese
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- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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