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.
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.
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
japan travel bureau, 1961
the films of akira kurosawa.
university of california press, 1965. 3rd edition, expanded and updated, 1998.
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.
without prints: 1982.
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
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
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
conversation with donald richie, from conversations with history: institute of international studies, uc berkeley