Donald Richie Movies

The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.

Using rare archival footage and interviews with noted artists, philosophers, and scholars such as Huston Smith, this film examines the life and...

Donald Richie’s classic is, in the words of Yukio Mishima, an outrageous farce, and a pitiless indictment of all our false ‘human’...

Fifteen years before Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Richie anticipated the animation of Terry Gilliam in this early 8mm film. He cut up Life...

Richie captures the strange rhythm of sumo, where the wrestlers quietly and repeatedly face off—eye to eye—before smashing into each...