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

Jonathan Clements,

Motoko Tamamuro

4.31 · Rating details · 16 ratings · 1 review

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. Ov ...more

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Published November 1st 2003 by Stone Bridge Press

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Jan 15, 2016 Sarah Crawford rated it it was amazing

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. ...more

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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.