Ishiro Honda : a life in film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa / Steve Ryfle, Ed Godziszewski ; with Yuuko Honda-Yun ; foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryfle, Steve, author.

Godziszewski, Ed, author.

Contributor:

Honda-Yun, Yuuko, contributor.

Scorsese, Martin, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors.

Honda, Ishirō, 1911-1993.

Honda, Ishirō.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Examines the life and career of Japanese director Ishiro Honda, including analysis of his films"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

ISHIRO HONDA

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: 1911-45

1. A Boy from the Mountains

2. Tokyo

3. Film School Lessons

4. A Reluctant Soldier

5. Forging Bonds

6. War

II. AWAKENINGS: 1946-54

7. Starting Over

8. Allegiances and Alliances

9. The Documentaries

Ise-shima (1949), Story of a Co-op (1950)

10. Sea, Land, and Sky

The Blue Pearl (1951), The Skin of the South (1952),

The Man Who Came to Port (1952), Adolescence Part 2 (1953),

Eagle of the Pacific (1953), Farewell Rabaul (1954)

III. SCIENCE FICTION: 1954-64

11. No Laughing Matter

Godzilla (1954)

12. Obligations

Love Makeup (1955), Mother and Son (1955), Half Human (1955)

13. Youth Movement

Young Tree (1956), Night School (1956), People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956),

Rodan (1956)

14. Lovers and Aliens

Good Luck to These Two (1957), A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye (1957),

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart (1957),

A Farewell to the Woman I Called My Sister (1957), The Mysterians (1957)

15. Brides, Blobs, and a Bomb

Song for a Bride (1958), The H- Man (1958), Varan the Unbelievable (1958)

16. Marriage, Money, and the Moon

An Echo Calls You (1959), Inao, Story of an Iron Arm (1959),

Seniors, Juniors, Co-workers (1959), Battle in Outer Space (1959)

17. Accidental Monsters

The Human Vapor (1960), Mothra (1961), A Man in Red (1961)

18. Going Global

Gorath (1962), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

19. Dangerous Waters

Matango (1963), Atragon (1963)

20. Monsters and Gangsters

Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Dogora (1964),

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

IV. GOOD-BYE, GODZILLA: 1965-75

21. East Meets West

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965),.

The War of the Gargantuas (1966), Come Marry Me (1966)

22. Monsters or Bust

King Kong Escapes (1967), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Latitude Zero (1969),

All Monsters Attack (1969), Space Amoeba (1970), Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

V. AT KUROSAWA'S SIDE: 1976-93

23. Rhapsody in Autumn

Afterword

Ishiro Honda Filmography

Notes

Index

Illustrations appear after page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780819577412

0819577413

OCLC:

987909733