Richie D. Japanese Cinema: An Introduction

Oxford University Press, 1990. - 99 p.
The Japanese cinema is one of the major national cinemas and commands the attention of world audiences. Yet there is much in the Japanese film that Western audiences, unfamiliar with the Japanese cultural tradition, may fail to appreciate, and may even misinterpret. This succinct introduction, illustrated with stills from representative films, provides a brief history of the Japanese cinema. At the same time, it defines and explains the cultural assumptions behind the Japanese film, and shows how the Japanese cinema has accommodated influences from elsewhere to become an amalgam of the native and the foreign, welded into a new entity.
Donald Richie is a noted film director, critic, and writer, whose earlier writings introduced the Japanese cinema to the West. He is a former curator of film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and co-directed the Telluride Festival in 1988.From the Beginnings to the Early 1920s.
From 1923 to the Late 1930s.
The 1940s and the 1950s.
From the 1960s to the 1980s.