Ozu's Tokyo Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ozu's Tokyo Story write by David Desser. This book was released on 1997-04-13. Ozu's Tokyo Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ozu's Tokyo Story is generally regarded as one of the finest films ever made. Universal in its appeal, it is also considered to be 'particularly Japanese'. Exploring its universality and cultural specificity, this collection of specially commissioned essays demonstrates the multiple planes on which the film may be appreciated. The introduction outlines Ozu's career as both a contract director of a major studio and as a singular figure in Japanese film history, and also analyses the director's cinematic style, particularly his narrative strategies and spatial compositions. Other essays situate Ozu's cinema in its relationship to Hollywood film-making: his relationship to aspects of Japanese tradition, situating the film within artistic modes, religious systems and beliefs, and socio-cultural and familial formations. Also included is an analysis of how Ozu has been misunderstood in Western criticism.
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tokyo Story write by Yasujirō Ozu. This book was released on 2003. Tokyo Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the 100th anniversary of the great director's birth, a book celebrating his greatest film.
The Book of Tokyo
The Book of Tokyo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Tokyo write by Hideo Furukawa. This book was released on 2015-06-12. The Book of Tokyo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s parks hides a darker motive… At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them. But Tokyo being the city it is, random encounters inevitably take place – a naïve book collector, mistaken for a French speaker, is drawn into a world he never knew existed; a woman seeking psychiatric help finds herself in a taxi with an older man wanting to share his own peculiar revelations; a depressed divorcee accepts an unexpected lunch invitation to try Thai food for the very first time… The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other people’s company. As one character puts it, ‘The world is full of delicious things, you know.’
I Live in Tokyo
I Live in Tokyo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Live in Tokyo write by Mari Takabayashi. This book was released on 2004-11-06. I Live in Tokyo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have you ever been to Tokyo, Japan? Far away, in the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo is a busy city of color, activity, celebrations, gigantic buildings, and much more. Seven-year-old Mimiko lives in Tokyo, and here you can follow a year’s worth of fun, food and festivities in Mimiko’s life, month by month. Learn the right way to put on a kimono and see Mimiko’s top ten favorite meals—just try not to eat the pages featuring delicious wagashi!
Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)
Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) write by Yu Miri. This book was released on 2021-06-22. Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
