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Donald richie at an exhibition of his paintings at the nippon gallery in tokyo in 2007. He was best known for his books on cinema, including the japanese. Donald richie is an americanborn author who has written about the japanese people and japanese cinema. Richie then returned to japan as film critic for the japan times and in 1959 published his first book, the japanese film. Japanese tattoo aka horimono, irezumi, shisei books. In his five decades as a writer, donald richie has investigated everything from the glories of noh to the mysteries of the japanese tattoo, while attemptin. Formerly curator of film at the new york museum of modern art, he is well known as the foremost western authority on the japanese cinema see a hundred years of japanese film, and has also written many books on the country and its culture.

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