Noriko Smiling

Adam Mars-Jones author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Notting Hill Editions

Published:8th Aug '11

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Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujirō Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time…’ So begins this remarkable essay in narrative reconstruction. Film-critic, novelist and essayist Mars-Jones gives a virtuoso performance as the lost figure of film explainer, drawing out a host of meaning from the reticence of Ozu’s classic Japanese movie.

‘So long after its first release Late Spring is still limber and elusive,’ enthuses Mars-Jones. Noriko Smiling breathes new life into both Ozu’s film, and film studies as a whole. There has never been a film book like this.

ISBN: 9781907903458

Dimensions: 190mm x 120mm x 150mm

Weight: 250g

246 pages