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Festival of Shadows
**A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection **Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2023 What happens when the living risk their lives to save the souls of the dead? Every summer, in an isolated Japanese village, a celebration known as the Festival of Shadows takes place. The villagers are entrusted to assist the troubled souls or "shadows" of those who died tragically, and to help them come to terms with their deaths and find eternal peace. Naoko, a young girl born in the village, is given a year to save the soul of a mysterious young man. She develops strong feelings for her shadow—a handsome young man, an artist—but he see...
Tokyo Mystery Café - Volume 1 - Hidden in Akiba
Tucked away down an anonymous alleyway in the shadow of Tokyo’s skyscrapers, you will find the Mystery Café. Push open the door and take a seat at the counter: here, the eccentric owner offers not only his fine cuisine, but also his services as a detective...
The Works of Hayao Miyazaki
His poetic directing and universal themes, such as the importance of nature, have turned Hayao Miyazaki into one of the most respected artists on the movie and animation scene. Initially intended for Japan only, his works eventually reached the Western market. Spirited Away is one of the most successful animated movies worldwide. This book aims to explore the personality of this unusual author and his collaborators, and to decipher, movie by movie, the profound themes found throughout his entire work, which reveal the humanist nature of this essential filmmaker.
Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter
Part fantasy, part travelogue, Diary Of A Yokai Ghost Hunter follows the adventures of two foreign visitors as they tour Japan. When they buy an antique camera along the way, they discover they can capture images of Japan's invisible spirit world. The forgotten spirits they meet can be kindly, mischievous, and some, downright dangerous. Everywhere they go from forests to Shinto temples to fishing villages they are met with Yokai, the Japanese word for supernatural monsters, ghosts, and demons. The subject of Yokai is wildly popular right now and is featured prominently in books, websites, and online videos. Google receives thousands of searches on the topic daily. Readers 10-18 who cherished books like Cool Japan Guide and Diary of a Tokyo Teen will delight in this comic book style adventure. The graphic novel format will appeal to diehard anime and manga fans while stressing the importance this ancient spirit world is to the Japanese culture.
Contemporary Japanese Film
This comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive essays provide an overview of some of the key issues and themes of the decade, and provide background and context for the treatment of individual films and artists. In Mark Schilling's view, Japanese film is presently in a period of creative ferment, with a lively independent sector challenging the conventions of the industry mainstream. Younger filmmakers are rejecting the stale formulas that have long characterized major studio releases, reaching out to new influences from other media—television, comics, music videos, and even computer games—and from both the West and other Asian cultures. In the process they are creating fresh and exciting films that range from the meditative to the manic, offering hope that Japanese film will not only survive but thrive as it enters the new millennium.
La disparue d’Akiba
Tout juste arrivé au Japon, Nahel, aspirant mangaka, est déboussolé par sa découverte de Tokyo. S'il a aisément trouvé un logement, intégrer un atelier d'auteur ou une maison d'édition lui apparaît vite comme un défi insurmontable. Et lorsque sa mystérieuse voisine se fait enlever et qu'il est lui-même pris en chasse, il va découvrir un tout autre aspect de la capitale nippone. Ses mésaventures vont l'amener à rencontrer Soba, une jeune collégienne un peu en marge et un étonnant patron qui offre à celui qui pousse la porte de son restaurant les meilleurs plats nippons et ses services de détective... Malgré lui, il va partir à la recherche de l'inconnue disparue. Mais la découverte de la véritable identité de la victime va plonger Nahel et ses nouveaux amis dans un univers impitoyable dont ils ne soupçonnaient pas l'existence. Une série d'enquêtes à Tokyo qui nous plongent dans les mystères de la culture japonaise !
Rankafu
Rankafu showcases for the first time an exceptional set of orchid woodblock prints from early 20th century Japan. Considered masterworks of botanical art, the Rankafu prints are visually stunning and reproduced here in full colour, showcasing the fine details of this spectacular art form. Accompanying these stunning prints, the authors tell the story of Shotaro Kaga, a pioneering horticulturist whose orchid collection and breeding programme started a craze in Japan that continues to this day. Kaga and his gifted orchid gardener, Kenkichi Goto were highly skilled orchid growers and developed hundreds of spectacular orchid hybrids. Kaga's interest in orchids was sparked by his visit to Kew in ...
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Princess Mononoke Film Comic, Vol. 3
Raised by wolves and calling the forest her home, a young girl by the name of Princess Mononoke is the only one who can save the planet! It was the Age of Iron: a time when mankind was just starting to understand its ability to exploit the earth and all its natural resources. But a war was brewing--a war between a village of iron miners and the animal gods of the surrounding forest. Expelled from Lady Eboshi's iron town, young Ashitaka comes face to face with Princess Mononoke and the denizens of the surrounding forest. Standing before a tribunal of wolves, apes and boars, Ashitaka must be careful. One misspoken word from his lips might doom the entire human race!
Atelier
Continuamos a saber muito pouco sobre o sistema de valores e de representações dos artistas portugueses e sobre as suas condições materiais de existência. Como trabalham os artistas em Portugal? Como definem o seu «local de trabalho» e que relação se estabelece entre as características desses espaços e a natureza das suas obras? Que ritmos, hábitos, métodos e materiais usam habitualmente? Qual a relação entre os espaços onde surgem as ideias e os locais onde elas se materializam? Em suma, qual a importância do «ambiente de trabalho» nos modelos de vida, nos horizontes de expectativa e na identidade colectiva dos criadores portugueses? Este livro pretende antes de mais aproximar o grande público da experiência quotidiana de trabalho de um conjunto de artistas plásticos portugueses. Não é, por isso, nem um exercício de crítica de arte, nem um ensaio de teoria estética, mas antes uma reportagem que, ao olhar de perto para o espaços de produção dos artistas, quer oferecer ao leitor uma outra compreensão dos seus problemas e dificuldades, mas também das suas ideias e das preocupações, bem como do seu lugar e papel na sociedade actual.
