吉田喜重『小津安二郎の反映画』（英訳） Ozu's Anti-Cinema (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)

Yoshida, Kiju/ Miyao, Daisuke (TRN)/ Hirano, Kyoko (TRN)

Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan（2003/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 198 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781929280278
• DDC分類 791.430233092

基本説明

Translated by Daisuke Miyao, Columbia University and Kyoko Hirano, Japan Society. This award-winning book mainly concerns Ozu's films, but it is also Yoshida's manifesto on films and film-making.

Full Description

Yoshida starts his award-winning Ozu's Anti-Cinema with a story about his trip to Ozu's deathbed. Yoshida writes that a dying Ozu whispered to him twice, as if speaking to himself, "Cinema is drama, not accident." These cryptic last words troubled Yoshida for decades, and throughout this book he examines Ozu's films and tries to uncover what Ozu really meant.
Ozu's Anti-Cinema concerns Ozu's films, but it is also Yoshida's manifesto on films and filmmaking. In other words, this book is Yoshida's personal journey into Ozu's thoughts on filmmaking and, simultaneously, into his own thoughts on the nature of cinema. Every page displays the sensibility of one artist discussing another—this is probably a book that only a filmmaker could write. Within Yoshida's luminous prose lies a finely tuned, rigorous analysis of Ozu's films, which have rarely been engaged as closely and personally as here.