kon ishikawa festival

[Aaron Gerow]

Below is a description of the Kon Ichikawa book that Christophe mentioned 
which I pulled from the Indiana University Press site (which distributes 
the book).  It has a lot of contributions from many KineJapan members 
(including, to be honest, myself), so it is worth a look.  And it is the 
only extensive book on Ichikawa in the English language.

Kon Ichikawa

 Edited by James Quandt

Prominent scholars discuss the films of acclaimed
Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Paper
0-9682969-3-9
$29.95 
                                     
Kon Ichikawa (b. 1915) has long been inter-nationally
acknowledged as one of the most accomplished and prolific
masters of Japanese cinema, in the exalted company of Akira
Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Yasujiro Ozu. Celebrated
for his many adaptations of famous Japanese novels, such
as Fires on the Plain, Harp of Burma, Kagi, Conflagration,
and The Makioka Sisters, Ichikawa is an artist with an
astounding command of many genres, forms, and tones,
from ferociously humanist war films to sophisticated social
satires, formalist documentaries (the acclaimed Tokyo
Olympiad), to extravagant period pieces (An Actor's
Revenge). 

James Quandt, Senior Programmer at Cinematheque
Ontario, is the editor of Robert Bresson and Shohei
Imamura. 

Distributed for Cinematheque Ontario
Sales territory: World except Canada
Publication date: June 2001
Specs: 416 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2

Aaron Gerow
Associate Professor
International Student Center
Yokohama National University
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