Donald Richie
Born: April 17, 1924
Died: February 19, 2013 (aged 88)
Bio: Donald Richie was an American-born author who wrote about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema. Although he considered himself primarily a film historian, Richie also directed a number of experimental films, the first when he was 17.
Known for:
- The films of Akira Kurosawa (1970)
- The Inland Sea (1971)
- The Japan Journals (2004)
- A Hundred Years of Japanese Film (2001)
- A tractate on Japanese aesthetics (2007)
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