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Title: Currents in Japanese Cinema: Essays by Tadao Sato, Gregory Barrett ISBN: 0-87011-507-3 Publisher: Kodansha America Pub. Date: June, 1982 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50

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Summary: A Japanese Perspective on Japanese Film
Comment: There is a great deal of discussion these days about the inadequacy of Western critics treating non-Western materials, but it is deucedly difficult to find indigenous criticism in translation. The essays of Tadao Sato, one of Japan's important film critics, are thus extremely valuable for students and teachers of the subject. Sato's work is provocative, readable, and full of insight. He gives us a sense about how Japanese cinema speaks to the extraordinary crises and transitions that have affected the nation's people and culture during the past century. He treats not only art films but also talks about currents in popular cinema. He is not as exhaustive as Richie, but his overview is, perhaps for this reason, more coherent. He analyzes technical aspects of cinema and discusses the importance of actors and actresses as well as explores thematic aspects of Japanese film. He is, as translator and editor Barrett points out, "anti-feudalistic," so he gives less attention to the period films of Kurosawa than Western critics do. To compensate, however, he provides extremely valuable insight into the more "Japanese" domestic dramas of Ozu and Naruse. An essay on the impact of Western cinema on Japanese cinema gives a concise picture of cross-cultural influences. His essays on "Developments in the 60s" and "Developments in the 70s" demonstrate connections between "art" cinema and popular cinema. He does not consider anime, sci-fi genres, or more recent cinema in this collection. The book includes a useful chronology of developments in Japanese cinema through 1981. Barrett's essay on Sato creates important context for Sato's work.