The Samurai Film Handbook Out This Summer!
Posted by: activeadmin on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 05:26 PM
Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook arriving to
bookstores this Summer from Stone Bridge Press.
The Samurai Film Handbook Out This Summer!
The first popular survey of Japan's samurai film genre and its
heroes!
STRAY DOGS & LONE WOLVES: THE SAMURAI FILM HANDBOOK
by Patrick Galloway
June 2005 (Berkeley, CA) Stone Bridge Press, publisher of books
about Japan, introduces its third major book on cinema, this time
celebrating one of the most beloved genres from Japan: the samurai
film!
"Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves" is a critical guide to over 50 top
samurai films, including such masterworks as the Oscar-winning 'Gate
of Hell,' 'Yojimbo' (remade five times, including 'A Fistful of
Dollars'), the influential 'Lady Snowblood,' and newly released hits
like Takeshi Kitano's 'Zatoichi.'
"Packed with great reviews and tons of background details, 'Stray
Dogs and Lone Wolves' is a must for fansor would-be fansof the
samurai genre," said Robert Woodhead, CEO of AnimEigo. "I've already
used it to make note of several films that we ought to release here
in the U.S."
Also here is information on the samurai era in Japan, the Japanese
film industry, and the key actors and directors such as Akira
Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, and Tatsuya Nakadai who turned these
warrior tales of loyalty, duty, revenge, and explosive swordsmanship
into a great dramatic art that has captivated the world.
Author Patrick Galloway is a lifelong student of Asian philosophy,
film, and culture. Tired of how his favorite film genre is
mistreated by most academic film critics, he took matters into his
own hands and wrote the book for which he and his fellow samurai
movie fans have been waiting.
"It is rare even among the Japanese to find anyone so well informed
and passionate about Japan's unique genre of samurai films," said
legendary actor Tatsuya Nakadai. "I admire Patrick Galloway's great
enthusiasm, and I hope his book will help you enjoy these films too."
Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook is 240 pages,
paperback, with 40 black & white photos. It retails for US$19.95.
ISBN 1-880656-93-0. See the cover at
http://stonebridgepress.blogspot.com/2005/05/final-cover-for-stray-
dogs-lone-wolves.html
ACTORS AND DIRECTORS PROFILED:
Hideo Gosha -- Shinobu Hashimoto -- Raizo Ichikawa -- Shintaro
Katsu -- Masaki Kobayashi -- Akira Kurosawa -- Toshiro Mifune --
Tatsuya Nakadai -- Tetsuro Tamba -- Tomisaburo Wakayama
FILMS REVIEWED:
Adventures of Zatoichi -- Band of Assassins -- Chushingura --
Daimajin -- Destiny's Son -- Gate of Hell -- Harakiri -- Heaven &
Earth -- Hunter in the Dark -- Kagemusha -- Kwaidan -- Lady
Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld -- Lady Snowblood: Love
Song of Vengeance -- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx -
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades --- Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword
of Vengeance -- New Tale of Zatoichi -- Rashomon -- Red Lion --
Roningai -- Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto -- Samurai 2: Duel at
Ichijoji Temple -- Samurai 3: Duel on Ganryu Island -- Samurai
Assassin -- Samurai Banners -- Samurai Rebellion -- Samurai
Reincarnation --- Sanjuro -- Seven Samurai -- Shogun's Samurai --
Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Seduction -- Sleepy Eyes of Death:
The Chinese Jade -- Sword of Doom -- Taboo -- Tenchu! -- The Hidden
Fortress -- The Razor: Sword of Justice -- The Razor: The Snare --
The Razor: Who's Got the Gold? -- The Secret of the Urn -- The Tale
of Zatoichi -- The Tale of Zatoichi Continues -- Three Outlaw
Samurai -- Throne of Blood -- The Twilight Samurai -- Wicked Priest:
Cast a Net of Drunken Anger -- Yojimbo -- Yokai Monsters: 100
Monsters -- Zatoichi -- Zatoichi Challenged -- Zatoichi: The
Festival of Fire