Windows on Japan

Windows on Japan

Its writers and filmmakers Category : Literature Eric Faye Size : 13 x 20,5 cm/ Paper cover with flaps 336 pages / Black & white Éditions Picquier ISBN : 9782809715415 / 21 € Release date : Mar 04, 21 Rights available

Japan is the closest inhabited planet to Earth. At first sight, it is not easy to enter the right codes, explore its hidden facets or identify its taboos and obsessions. However, filmmakers and writers can help us understand this world that is so close, yet so far away. Here we have an archipelago of books and films, all linked to facilitate our transport from one point to another, from the early stages of the modern novel to the Golden Age of Cinema. Strolling with Natsume Sôseki, Junichirô Tanizaki and Ryû Murakami, Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse and Hirokazu Kore-eda paints a portrait of the Japan of yesteryear and of today. Each chapter is a window onto an aspect of Japanese society, over which I cast a writer’s eye.