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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: FAB Press; First edition (19 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903254434
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903254431
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 14.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 426,700 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Nikkatsu Action - the film genre that taught a generation of Japanese the meaning of cool! This book is Volume 2 of the Cinema Classics Collection from FAB Press. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood and the French New Wave, Nikkatsu Action pictures blended East and West showing the gritty realities of life in postwar Japan, from the hot jazz clubs and glam cabarets of the Ginza to the foggy loneliness - and danger - of the Yokohama docks at midnight. Made by a fresh crop of talented directors in their twenties and early thirties, including the legendary Seijun Suzuki, and featuring young stars like Ishihara, Akira Kobayashi and Keiichiro Akagi, Nikkatsu Action defined the meaning of cool for a whole generation. As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s, Nikkatsu moved with the times, going Pop with a bang in films like Yasuharu Hasebe's Black Tight Killers and Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill, while raising a new crop of stars like Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuya Fuji and Meiko Kaji - the fiery, take-no-nonsense star of the Stray Cat Rock series. More than thirty years later the Nikkatsu Action legacy lives on. Recent popular releases of Nikkatsu films such as Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter on DVD show the genre's enduring appeal. The first ever book in English devoted entirely to the hugely influential film genre, Nikkatsu Action, No Borders, No Limits is packed with colour illustrations. Includes a history of the studio, profiles of stars and directors, film reviews and career interviews with Joe Shishido, Toshio Masuda and Seijun Suzuki.


About the Author

Mark Schilling has been living in Tokyo since 1975 and reviewing Japanese films for The Japan Times since 1989. He is now the Japan correspondent for Variety. Schilling has written hundreds of articles on Japan, contributing to Newsweek and Time, while writing the books The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture, Contemporary Japanese Film and The Yakuza Movie Book - A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films. Since 2001, Schilling has also been a program advisor to the Udine Far East Film Festival, Italy, and has placed articles in magazines as diverse as Film Quarterly and Film Threat.

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5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating insight to a little known genre, 10 Nov 2007
By Mr. Ae Rayner "aerayner" (hampton UK) - See all my reviews
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No borders, no limits - Nikkatsu action cinema - no, it's not referring to maniacal sword flailing Samurai warriors or men-in-suits monster movies! I now know that Nikkatsu was an incredibly prolific Japanese film studio which had been around since 1912 in the silent film days & had an output of some 7000 films up to about 1971, so it would require a volume resembling the Yellow pages to analyse each one !
Instead the author discusses the careers of some essential actors & actresses - Ishihara / Kobayashi / Akagi & Watari for example, Akagi being nicknamed `Tony' because of his resemblance (?!) to a young Tony Curtis ! The girls, Kitahara / Asaoka, Ashikawa & Kaji are discussed and there are plenty of photos of these cuties ! Noteworthy directors are also included - Toshio Masuda / Koneyoshi Kurahara ( love these names !) Seijun Suzuki & Yasuharu Hasebe ! There are also interviews with Masuda & Joe Shishido which are full of amusing and insightful anecdotes !
Loads of colour & black and white photos are peppered throughout the book.
As for the genre, well it can't really be pigeonholed as the films related to gangsters, loners, bikers, nightclub dancers & even the occasional tentative foray into soft porn.
The value of this book is that it highlights movies that are an important part of Japanese culture - the next step would be try to find them...Ebay.japan, perhaps ?!
A highly entertaining & informative book in handy size & an excellent addition to the FABpress library of the unusual !
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