Books

[Jim Harper]

Mark Schilling's Contemporary Japanese Cinema is an
excellent overview of recent Japanese cinema. It's
reviewed based primarily, but also includes some
decent interviews and several detailed essays on the
current state of the industry. Along with The Midnight
Eye Guide, it's the most dog-eared and
in-dire-need-of-replacing book in my Japanese cinema
collection.

If it's cult cinema you're after, Tom Mes's books on
Miike and Shinya Tsukamoto are absolutely invaluable.

Jim Harper.

--- noble 1362 <noble1362 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to this list and perhaps this is a
> simplistic question but can anyone recommend books
> to read? I have read Donald Richie, 100 years of
> Japanese Film and The Midnight Eye Guide to new
> Japanese Film and a few others. I now have over $350
> worth of books in my wish list on Amazon and need to
> narrow it down considerably. Thank you in advance
> for any help.
>  
> Oh, and I can not read japanese (unfortunately).
>  
> Thanks


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