The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953

by Jonathan Clements, Motoko Tamamuro

Deeply connected to Japanese anime, manga, music, and film is . . . Japanese TV. This encyclopedic survey of the next cultural tsunami to hit America has over one thousand entries—including production data, synopses, and commentaries—on everything from rubber-monster shows to samurai drama, from crime to horror, unlocking an entire culture’s pop history as never before. Over one hundred fifty of these shows have been broadcast on American TV, and more will follow, perhaps even such oddball fare as a Japanese "The Practice" and "Geisha Detective." Indexed, with resources for fans, couch potatoes, and researchers. Jonathan Clements is contributing editor to Newtype USA Magazine and coauthor of The Anime Encyclopedia . Motoko Tamamuro is an art historian and contributor to Manga Max .

Genres: Japan, Tv, Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Jonathan Clements is an author, translator, biographer and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Marco Polo, Mao Zedong, Koxinga and Qin Shihuangdi. He also writes for NEO magazine and is the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas.

Reviews

[James Crawford · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you have any interest at all in Japanese drama series, this is an excellent book to get. I've seen a lot of the series, my first one being Hanjuku Tamago; lately I've been watching Shomuni I. The book is a goldmine of information on Japanese drama series.

[Jack Harrison-Quintana]

In a way, it might be cheating to mark this as something I read recently because really it’s a reference book and I did not read it cover to cover. But I still think it’s worth reviewing on here because the introduction is a killer concise history of television in Japan from its earliest days. Plus, just reading through the entries about the shows I’ve seen or am interested in was extremely satisfying.

[wik! · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bicho por que esse negócio não tá em ordem cronológica?? Quem pensou que em ordem alfabética seria mais facil achar? Pra mim não foi não!

Enfim, gostei das informações, não li porque quis!!! Faz parte.