A tribute to 50 years of unforgettable images and purple prose created by nameless designers at Japanese film studios. Featuring classic posters from Samurai, Ninja, Monster, Sci-Fi, Yakuza, Pink, and Animation movies. As film critic Chuck Stephens observes in his introduction, "...the art of the Japanese movie poster-- a visual realm where the ridiculous meets the sublime... is like nothing one can hope to encounter anywhere else in the world." Inside you'll find 80 full-color, full-page illustrations, expert commentary, and plenty of swords, guns, tattoos, rubber monster suits, school uniforms, cartoon characters, thugs, and sirens.

Japanese Movie Posters: Yakuza, Monster, Pink and Horror

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Dh Pub Inc

For 50 years samurai movies have wowed the Japanese - and the world - with gory sword fights and tear-jerking tales of honor and sacrifice. From Kurosawa's Seven Samurai to anime's Samurai X, this first-ever collection of original samurai movie art pays tribute to a cinematic genre that is truly Japanese. Silver Screen Samurai is a must-have for samurai fans, movie-buffs and lovers of poster art!

Silver Screen Samurai: The Best of Japan's Samurai Movie Posters

Humor & Entertainment

Cocoro Books

Movies

The posters, programs and flyers that launched a revolution in animated film! Anime, now 50 years old, is as much a part of Japanese culture as sushi and Sony. And though many of the best works remain hidden from fans unable to visit Japan, some of these desireable images are here in this book! With 9 chapters, 160+ full-color images, 4 full-page essays and rich bonus material, this is more than just another film poster book. Here's a sample of the contents: * original Japanese posters, programs and flyers of Akira, Dragon Ball Z, Lupin III, Urusei Yatsura, Space Battleship Yamato, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Academy Award-winning Studio Ghibli * rare titles: Tomorrow's Joe, Jin-Roh, Golgo 13, Project A-ko and Hoshi of the Giants * each with storylines and background gossip * each with original Japanese copy and English translations * poster titles in English, Japanese, and Romaji * the story behind the colorful, crazed art * tantalizing facts and little-known information * detailed, witty introduction * page-length essays covering anime spin-offs(cels, toys, doujinshi) anime's roots; anime greats; the Japanese movie market

Anime Poster Art: Japan's Movie House Masterpieces

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Accessible, fun, and colorful world of snarling gangsters, fire-breathing lizards, and animated dreams full of humor and wonder. While high-art Japanese cinema has been documented and analyzed in the West, popular and cult Japanese movies have remained largely unexplored. The fantastic vintage posters that drew the masses to Kurosawa's samurai flicks, Godzilla, and sexy Pink movies are now available to US audiences. Featuring genre classics and funky retro designs, as well as Anime, Sci-Fi and New Cinema, Japanse Movie Posters also offers irreverent commentary by poster and movie experts, as well as plenty of swords, guns, tattoos, geishas, ghosts, rubber monster suits, cartoon robots, samurais and sirens.

Japanese Movie Posters: Yakuza, Monster, Pink, and Horror

Tetsuya Masuda

Kairakutei Black

Fun, accessible introduction to the world of the ninja. Ninjutsu is an arsenal of martial arts moves--and also a set of methods for surviving in the wild, accupressure, meditation, diet and exercise. Japan's legendary spies spring to life in hundreds of full color photographs of a Ninja's home with all its tricks and traps; Ninja codes and secret languages; ingenious weapons and gadgets; techniques for stealth, fighting dirty, and making getaways; Ninja navigation.

Secrets of the Ninja: Their Training, Tools and Techniques

Sports & Outdoors

Cahill, Jennifer

Shimazaki, Hidetoshi

Kuroi, Hiromitsu

Individual Sports

Japanese pop culture at its most fun, a first peek into this hot new trend. Cosplay is the diminutive for costume play, where Japanese fans of animation, video games, and manga comics -- especially women-- dress up in the latest outfits of their heroines. Devotees spend countless hours and hard-earned yen transforming themselves into their favorite characters. Cosplay Girls offers 300+ full-color photos of young women who have re-invented themselves as street-fighting tough chicks, emerald-haired princesses, spunky schoolgirls, and faux-fur kittens--as well as a few things you have to see to believe! Includes: 
* Cosplayers who explain their obsession in their own words 
* helpful Cosplay tips 
* historical perspective 
* vintage Cosplay photo collection 
* 23 outrageous sections of cosplay fantasy

Cosplay Girls: Japan's Live Animation Heroines

The secrets and mysteries of the four televised Gundam sagas from 1979. The book guides the reader through a maze of character bios, Gundam technologies, truths and legends that continue to perplex and mesmerize viewers all over the world.

The Gundam Explorer: Wing, First, G, Seed and More! Mysteries and Secrets Revealed! #1

Kazuhisa Fujie

Martin Foster

The boy tries to escape from his house, his strange family, and the evil he knows is present, but the red snake unleashes the evil and the mayhem begins.

The Red Snake (Hino Horror, 1)

HINO, Hideshi

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sanpei is tranformed into a huge poisonous bug and seeks revenge on those who bullied and mistreated him as a boy.

The Bug Boy (Hino Horror, 2)

A demon who eats bugs from Hell, which feed off the souls of suffering humans. Mamushinbo, Oninbo's rival, makes his debut.

Hino Horror, Vol. 3: Oninbo and the Bugs from Hell

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