Donald Richie 
A Lateral View 
Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

A masterfully written collection of short essays by the recognized Western expert on Japanese culture and film and the man
Time magazine calls ‚the dean of art critics in Japan.‘ Spanning more than thirty years, Richie interprets his adopted home’s creative accomplishments during its rise to economic and cultural power.

Über den Autor

Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.