REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
Dictionary of Japanese Cinema in 113 Filmmakers
The Golden Age 1935-1975
Under the direction of Pascal-Alex Vincent
Preface by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
13.5 cm x 19 cm | 344 pages (including photos)
ISBN: 979–10–93798–35-6
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:
FABRICE ARDUINI, DIANE ARNAUD, MOHAMED BOUAOUINA, CATHERINE CADOU, MATHIEU CAPEL, SIMON DANIELLOU, ROBIN GATTO, OLIVIER HADOUCHI, YANNICK KERNEC'H, FUTOSHI KOGA, OSAMU KUROI, CLAUDE LEBLANC, OLIVIER MALOSSE, ELEONORE MAHMOUDIAN, FABIEN MAURO, ANTOINE DE MENA, STÉPHANE DU MESNILDOT, TERUYO NOGAMI, EITHNE O'NEILL, MARIE PRUVOST-DELASPRE, CLÉMENT RAUGER, JULIEN SEVEON, PASCAL-ALEX VINCENT AND JUNKO WATANABE
Published 10 years ago, this Dictionary has become the definitive reference on Japanese cinema. Out of print, it has been reissued in a new, revised and expanded edition, featuring 12 new entries, a new introduction, and the Top 10 Japanese Films list from Kinema Junpo magazine!
Did you know that Akira Kurosawa was unaware that his film Rashomon had been presented at the Venice Film Festival, where it had just won the Golden Lion? That his favorite actor, the star Toshirô Mifune, only directed one film?
Did you know that in the 1930s, Masahiro Makino sometimes shot two feature films simultaneously while using illicit substances? That Kon Ichikawa commissioned Michel Legrand to compose the music for one of his blockbusters? That Tadashi Imai, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1963, interrupted his career to become a spare parts salesman? That the first Palme d'Or for short film awarded to a woman went to a Japanese director?
113 entries for an illustrated dictionary accessible to all, novices and film buffs alike, highlighting the careers of 113 key filmmakers and their masterpieces, with the same ambition: to accompany the reader in their discovery of Japanese cinema, for a long time the leading cinema of Asia.
This dictionary is a revised and expanded version of the previous edition, with twelve additional filmmakers, the Top 100 from Kinema Junpo magazine, and two new photo sections.
Pascal-Alex Vincent has made several documentaries about Japanese cinema and teaches at Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3.
Release date: October 23, 2025
