Donald Richie
American writer and film historian (1924–2013)
Biography
Donald Richie was an American author, journalist, and film critic. He was known for writing about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema. Although he considered himself primarily a film historian, Richie also directed a number of experimental films, the first when he was 17. He was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun in 2005.
Occupation
Donald Richie is recorded as a film screenwriter, a film actor, a film critic, a film editor, a film director, a film producer, a journalist, a curator, a military officer, a historian, a composer and a writer, born in Ohio (1924–2013).
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