Donald Richie

Donald Richie (17 April 1924 – 19 Februari 2013) adalah seorang pengarang kelahiran Amerika yang menulis tentang orang Jepang, budaya Jepang, dan secara khusus sinema Jepang. Meskipun ia menganggap dirinya sendiri mengutamakan diri sebagai seorang sejarawan film, Richie juga menyutradarai beberapa film eksperimental, film yang pertama dibuat ketika ia berusia 17 tahun.

Biografi 
Richie lahir di Lima, Ohio.

Meskipun Richie dapat berbicara menggunakan bahasa Jepang, ia tidak dapat membaca dan menulis menggunakan bahasa tersebut secara sempurna.

Richie meninggal, pada usia 88 tahun, pada 19 Februari 2013, di Tokyo.

Sinema Jepang 

Richie menulis subtitel Inggris untuk film-film Akira Kurosawa Kagemusha (1980), Red Beard, dan Dreams (1990).

Buku karya Richie 

 The Honorable Visitors. Charles E Tuttle; 1949; ISBN 0-8048-1941-6
 
 With Watanabe Miyoko. Six Kabuki Plays (paperback). Hokuseido Press; 1953; ISBN 1-299-15754-8
 
 
 With Joseph L. Anderson. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry (paperback). Princeton University Press; 1959, revised 1983; ISBN 0-691-00792-6
 Japanese Movies. Japan Travel Bureau, 1961
 The Films of Akira Kurosawa. University of California Press, 1965. 3rd edition, expanded and updated, 1998. ISBN 978-0-520-22037-9
 The Japanese Movie. An Illustrated History (hardcover). Kodansha Ltd; 1965; ISBN 1-141-45003-8
 
 Erotic Gods Phallicism in Japan (slipcase). Shufushinsha; 1966; ISBN 1-141-44743-6
 Companions of the Holiday (hardcover). Weatherhill; 1968; ISBN 1-299-58310-5
 George Stevens: An American Romantic. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1970.
 
 
 Zen Inklings: Some Stories, Fables, Parables, and Sermons (Buddhism & Eastern Philosophy) (Paperback) with prints by the author. Weatherhill, 1982. Without prints: 1982. ISBN 978-0-8348-0230-8
 
 Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese (hardcover). Kodansha Inc; 1987; ISBN 0-87011-820-X
 Focus on Rashomon (hardcover). Rutgers University Press; 1987; ISBN 0-13-752980-5
 Introducing Tokyo (hardcover). Kodansha Inc; 1987; ISBN 0-87011-806-4
 Introducing Japan (hardcover). Kodansha International; 1987; ISBN 0-87011-833-1
 Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character (paperback). Oxford University Press; 1990; ISBN 0-19-584950-7
 Japanese Cinema: An Introduction (hardcover). Oxford University Press; 1990; ISBN 0-19-584950-7
 
 The Inland Sea (paperback). Kodansha International; 1993; ISBN 4-7700-1751-0
 The Temples of Kyoto (hardback). Tuttle Publishing; 1995; ISBN 0-8048-2032-5
 Partial Views: Essays on Contemporary Japan (paperback). Japan Times; 1995; ISBN 4-7890-0801-0
 
 Memoirs of the Warrior Kumagai: A Historical Novel (hardcover). Tuttle Publishing; 1999; ISBN 0-8048-2126-7
 Tokyo: A View of the City (paperback). Reaktion Books; 1999; ISBN 1-86189-034-6
 
  and Stone Bridge Press; 2010; ISBN 1-880656-69-8
 With Roy Garner. The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan (paperback). Reaktion Books; 2003; ISBN 1-86189-153-9
 Japanese Literature Reviewed (hardcover). ICG Muse; 2003; ISBN 4-925080-78-4
 A View from the Chuo Line and Other Stories (paperback), Printed Matter Press, 2004, SBN 4900178276
 
  (paperback)
 Tokyo Nights (paperback). Printed Matter Press; 2005; ISBN 1-933606-00-2
 
 
 
 Botandoro: Stories, Fables, Parables and Allegories: A Miscellany (paperback), Printed Matter Press; 2008; ISBN 978-1-933606-16-3

 Referensi 

 Bacaan tambahan 

 
 Silva, Arturo, ed. (2001). The Donald Richie Reader. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. 10-ISBN 1-880656-61-2; 13-ISBN 978-1-880656-61-7 (cloth)

 Pranala luar 

 
 Conversation with Donald Richie , from Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley''

Kelahiran 1924
Kematian 2013