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Noriko Smiling

Noriko Smiling

ArtEssays
Pages
238
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

This essay offers a unique narrative reconstruction of Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 film, 'Late Spring.' Adam Mars-Jones delves into the film's subtleties, drawing out a world of meaning from its quiet moments. The book acts as a film explainer, a lost art from cinema's early days, providing an unparalleled analysis of a classic Japanese movie.

Prose complexity
7/10

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About the author

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Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones's first book of stories, Lantern Lecture, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and again in 1993 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, despite not having produced a novel at the time. His Zen status as an acclaimed novelist without a novel was dented by the appearance of The Waters of Thirst, and only suffered further with the appearance of Pilcrow, described by Margaret Drabble as 'one of the most remarkable...