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'''Stuart Eugene Galbraith IV''' (born 29 December 1965)<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1483213/reference IMDB: Stuart Galbraith IV]</ref> is an American cinema historian, film critic, and DVD special features producer, essayist, and audio commentator.<ref name="gov">http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Galbraith+Stuart&Search_Code=NALL&PID=71WpVZO8UaFjr553ZFkhdnxm7YC&SEQ=20150811160758&CNT=25&HIST=1</ref>
'''Stuart Eugene Galbraith IV''' (born December 29, 1965) is an American film historian, film critic, essayist, and audio commentator.<ref name=gov>{{cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/|title=Public Catalog – Copyright Catalog|work=United States Copyright Office|access-date = August 11, 2015 |postscript=. Search for Name "Galbraith Stuart" }}</ref><ref name="bio"/>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Raised in [[Livonia, Michigan]], Galbraith first worked professionally as a film reviewer and long-running home video columnist for ''[[The Ann Arbor News]]''. In 1993, Galbraith moved to Los Angeles, California, where he eventually earned an M.A. from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.
Raised in [[Livonia, Michigan]], Galbraith first worked professionally as a film reviewer and long-running home video columnist for ''[[The Ann Arbor News]]''. In 1993, Galbraith moved to Los Angeles, California, where he eventually earned an M.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.<ref name="bio"/>


==Career==
Galbraith’s Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, the first English-language book about the genre, was published in 1994, soon followed by The Japanese Filmography.
After graduation, Galbraith worked as an archivist for the USC-Warner Bros. Archives, and later worked at the Warner Bros. Corporate Archives before writing ''The Emperor and the Wolf'', a joint biography of Japanese director [[Akira Kurosawa]] and actor [[Toshiro Mifune]], and the first biography of either man published outside Japan. As with ''Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!'', the 800-page book featured original interviews with collaborators including Shinobu Hashimoto, Kyoko Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, Yoshiro Muraki, Masaru Sato, and Senkichi Taniguchi.<ref name="bio"/>


After that book's publication, Galbraith returned to archive work, as a "film detective" for MGM, tracking down the original camera negatives to more than three dozen "lost" films.<ref name="bio"/>
Galbraith’s 1998 book ''Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films'' was an oral history of the genre, told by such filmmakers as Kinji Fukasaku, Jun Fukuda, Kihachi Okamoto, and Noriaki Yuasa, and actors Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno, and Akira Takarada.


Galbraith's ''Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films'', the first English-language book about the genre, was published in 1994, and was soon followed by ''The Japanese Filmography''.
==Career==
After graduation, Galbraith worked as an archivist for the USC-Warner Bros. Archives, and later worked at the Warner Bros. Corporate Archives before writing ''The Emperor and the Wolf'', a joint biography of Japanese director [[Akira Kurosawa]] and actor [[Toshiro Mifune]], and the first biography of either man published outside Japan. As with ''Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!'', the 800-page book featured original interviews with collaborators including Shinobu Hashimoto, Kyoko Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, Yoshiro Muraki, Masaru Sato, and Senkichi Taniguchi.


Galbraith's 1998 book ''Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films'' was an oral history of the genre, told by such filmmakers as [[Kinji Fukasaku]], [[Jun Fukuda]], [[Kihachi Okamoto]], and [[Noriaki Yuasa]], and actors [[Mie Hama]], [[Kumi Mizuno]], and [[Akira Takarada]].
After that book’s publication, Galbraith returned to archive work, as a “film detective” for MGM, tracking down the original camera negatives to more than three dozen "lost" films.


On DVD, Galbraith’s essays have accompanied [[The Criterion Collection|Criterion]]'s three-disc ''[[Seven Samurai]]'', Optimum's ''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashomon]]'', and BCI Eclipse's ''[[The Quiet Duel]]''. He was an associate producer for the DVDs of the classic poolroom drama ''[[The Hustler (film)|The Hustler]]'' and [[Sidney Lumet]]'s ''[[The Verdict]]''. He provided audio commentary (with director [[Richard Fleischer]]) for the Special Edition DVD of ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'', and interviewed Oscar-winning cinematographer [[Vilmos Zsigmond]] for his audio commentary track for ''[[The Sadist]]''. Galbraith's audio commentary for Classic Media's ''[[Invasion of Astro-Monster]]'' was released in 2007 and nominated for a [[Rondo Hatton Award]].
On DVD, Galbraith's essays have accompanied [[The Criterion Collection|Criterion]]'s three-disc ''[[Seven Samurai]]'', Optimum's ''[[Rashomon (film)|Rashomon]]'', and BCI Eclipse's ''[[The Quiet Duel]]''. He was an associate producer for the DVDs of the classic poolroom drama ''[[The Hustler]]'' and [[Sidney Lumet]]'s ''[[The Verdict]]''. He provided audio commentary (with director [[Richard Fleischer]]) for the Special Edition DVD of ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'', and interviewed Oscar-winning cinematographer [[Vilmos Zsigmond]] for his audio commentary track for ''[[The Sadist (film)|The Sadist]]''. Galbraith's audio commentary for Classic Media's ''[[Invasion of Astro-Monster]]'' was released in 2007 and nominated for a [[Rondo Hatton Award]].


Since August 2003, Galbraith has been a reviewer for the website [[DVD Talk]], where he has published more than 1,900 reviews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/bio.php?ID=68&reviewID=38330 |title=Stuart Galbraith IV |work=DVD Talk}}</ref> Galbraith has been selected as a member of the [[Online Film Critics Society]].<ref name=OFCSmembers>{{cite web |title=Our Members |publisher=Online Film Critics Society |url=http://www.ofcs.org/our-members/ |accessdate=2014-10-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703173405/http://www.ofcs.org/our-members/ |archivedate=2014-07-03}}</ref>
Since August 2003, Galbraith has been a reviewer for the website [[DVD Talk]], where he has published more than 1,900 reviews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/bio.php?ID=68&reviewID=38330 |title=Stuart Galbraith IV |work=DVD Talk}}</ref> Galbraith has been selected as a member of the [[Online Film Critics Society]].<ref name=OFCSmembers>{{cite web |title=Our Members |date=May 28, 2012 |publisher=Online Film Critics Society |url=http://www.ofcs.org/our-members/ |access-date=October 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703173405/http://www.ofcs.org/our-members/ |archive-date=July 3, 2014}}</ref>


==Career in Japan==
==Career in Japan==
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In 2003 Galbraith moved to Kyoto, Japan, with his wife, Yukiyo Nishi. Their daughter, Sadie, was born in 2007. In addition to his work as a cinema scholar, until 2009 Galbraith published a monthly home video column for the English-language edition of the Daily Yomiuri. He also records narration and voice-over for industrial and educational films.
In 2003 Galbraith moved to Kyoto, Japan, with his wife, Yukiyo Nishi. Their daughter, Sadie, was born in 2007. In addition to his work as a cinema scholar, until 2009 Galbraith published a monthly home video column for the English-language edition of the Daily Yomiuri. He also records narration and voice-over for industrial and educational films.


Galbraith’s ''The Toho Studios Story'' was published in 2008, and ''Japanese Cinema'', edited by Paul Duncan, was published by Taschen in 2009. Also in 2009 he recorded a commentary track for [[AnimEigo]]’s ''[[Tora-san, Our Loveable Tramp]]''.
Galbraith's ''The Toho Studios Story'' was published in 2008, and ''Japanese Cinema'', edited by Paul Duncan, was published by [[Taschen]] in 2009. Also in 2009 he recorded a commentary track for [[AnimEigo]]'s ''[[Tora-san, Our Loveable Tramp]]''.


Galbraith is not directly related to [[Kilimanjaro Live]] music promoter [[Stuart Galbraith]] or former Ballyclare Comrades midfielder Stuart Galbraith.
Galbraith is not directly related to [[Kilimanjaro Live]] music promoter [[Stuart Galbraith]] or former Ballyclare Comrades midfielder Stuart Galbraith.


==Books==
==Bibliography==
* ''Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films'' (hardback). McFarland; 1994; ISBN 0-89950-853-7
* ''Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films'' (hardback). McFarland; 1994; {{ISBN|0-89950-853-7}}
* ''Motor City Marquees'' (hardback). McFarland; 1994; ISBN 0-7864-1143-0
* ''Motor City Marquees'' (hardback). McFarland; 1994; {{ISBN|0-7864-1143-0}}
* ''The Japanese Filmography'' (hardback). McFarland; 1996; ISBN 0-7864-0032-3
* ''The Japanese Filmography'' (hardback). McFarland; 1996; {{ISBN|0-7864-0032-3}}
* ''Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films'' (softcover). Feral House; 1998; ISBN 0-922915-47-4
* ''Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films'' (softcover). Feral House; 1998; {{ISBN|0-922915-47-4}}
* ''The Emperor and the Wolf – The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune'' (hardback). Faber; 2002; ISBN 0-571-19982-8
* ''The Emperor and the Wolf – The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune'' (hardback). Faber; 2002; {{ISBN|0-571-19982-8}}
* ''The Toho Studios Story'' (hardback). Scarecrow Press; 2008; ISBN 0-8108-6004-X
* ''The Toho Studios Story'' (hardback). Scarecrow Press; 2008; {{ISBN|0-8108-6004-X}}
* ''Japanese Cinema'' (hardback). Taschen; 2009; ISBN 3-8228-3156-5
* ''Japanese Cinema'' (hardback). Taschen; 2009; {{ISBN|3-8228-3156-5}}
* ''Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa'' (2017) - Special thanks

==Screenplays==
* ''Mifune: The Last Samurai'' (co-written with [[Steven Okazaki]])<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Okazaki, Steven (Director) | date=November 25, 2016 | title=Mifune: The Last Samurai | medium=Motion picture | location=United States | publisher=Creative Associates Limited}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
* {{cite book|title=Contemporary Authors|date=October 2003|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|isbn=9780787667146|ref={{harvid|Gale|2003}}}}


== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
* Duffy, Mike (January 12, 1984). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=83172531 "Old Game Shows Return Dressed in New Packages; Readers Write"]. Detroit Free Press''. p.&nbsp;23.
* [http://ryuganji.blogspot.com/2008/09/interview-stuart-galbraith-iv-author-of_7902.html Stuart Galbraith IV interview]
* Galbraith IV, Stuart (April 28, 1996). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=83172772 "Letters: Mystified]. ''Los Angeles Times''. p.&nbsp;87.
* Brown, Don (September 25, 2008) [http://ryuganji.blogspot.com/2008/09/interview-stuart-galbraith-iv-author-of_7902.html "Interview: Stuart Galbraith IV, author of 'The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography'"]. Ryuganji.blogspot.com.


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Latest revision as of 18:12, 3 January 2024

Stuart Galbraith IV
BornDecember 29, 1965[1]
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.[1][2]
OccupationFilm historian, film critic
SubjectJapanese film, anime
Years active1997–present
Spouses
  • Anne Sharp
    (m. 1990; div. 1994)
    [1]
  • Yukiyo Nishi
    (m. 2001)

Stuart Eugene Galbraith IV (born December 29, 1965) is an American film historian, film critic, essayist, and audio commentator.[3][2]

Early life and education

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Raised in Livonia, Michigan, Galbraith first worked professionally as a film reviewer and long-running home video columnist for The Ann Arbor News. In 1993, Galbraith moved to Los Angeles, California, where he eventually earned an M.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.[2]

Career

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After graduation, Galbraith worked as an archivist for the USC-Warner Bros. Archives, and later worked at the Warner Bros. Corporate Archives before writing The Emperor and the Wolf, a joint biography of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune, and the first biography of either man published outside Japan. As with Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo!, the 800-page book featured original interviews with collaborators including Shinobu Hashimoto, Kyoko Kagawa, Takeshi Kato, Yoshiro Muraki, Masaru Sato, and Senkichi Taniguchi.[2]

After that book's publication, Galbraith returned to archive work, as a "film detective" for MGM, tracking down the original camera negatives to more than three dozen "lost" films.[2]

Galbraith's Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, the first English-language book about the genre, was published in 1994, and was soon followed by The Japanese Filmography.

Galbraith's 1998 book Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films was an oral history of the genre, told by such filmmakers as Kinji Fukasaku, Jun Fukuda, Kihachi Okamoto, and Noriaki Yuasa, and actors Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno, and Akira Takarada.

On DVD, Galbraith's essays have accompanied Criterion's three-disc Seven Samurai, Optimum's Rashomon, and BCI Eclipse's The Quiet Duel. He was an associate producer for the DVDs of the classic poolroom drama The Hustler and Sidney Lumet's The Verdict. He provided audio commentary (with director Richard Fleischer) for the Special Edition DVD of Tora! Tora! Tora!, and interviewed Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond for his audio commentary track for The Sadist. Galbraith's audio commentary for Classic Media's Invasion of Astro-Monster was released in 2007 and nominated for a Rondo Hatton Award.

Since August 2003, Galbraith has been a reviewer for the website DVD Talk, where he has published more than 1,900 reviews.[4] Galbraith has been selected as a member of the Online Film Critics Society.[5]

Career in Japan

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In 2003 Galbraith moved to Kyoto, Japan, with his wife, Yukiyo Nishi. Their daughter, Sadie, was born in 2007. In addition to his work as a cinema scholar, until 2009 Galbraith published a monthly home video column for the English-language edition of the Daily Yomiuri. He also records narration and voice-over for industrial and educational films.

Galbraith's The Toho Studios Story was published in 2008, and Japanese Cinema, edited by Paul Duncan, was published by Taschen in 2009. Also in 2009 he recorded a commentary track for AnimEigo's Tora-san, Our Loveable Tramp.

Galbraith is not directly related to Kilimanjaro Live music promoter Stuart Galbraith or former Ballyclare Comrades midfielder Stuart Galbraith.

Bibliography

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  • Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films (hardback). McFarland; 1994; ISBN 0-89950-853-7
  • Motor City Marquees (hardback). McFarland; 1994; ISBN 0-7864-1143-0
  • The Japanese Filmography (hardback). McFarland; 1996; ISBN 0-7864-0032-3
  • Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo! The Incredible World of Japanese Fantasy Films (softcover). Feral House; 1998; ISBN 0-922915-47-4
  • The Emperor and the Wolf – The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (hardback). Faber; 2002; ISBN 0-571-19982-8
  • The Toho Studios Story (hardback). Scarecrow Press; 2008; ISBN 0-8108-6004-X
  • Japanese Cinema (hardback). Taschen; 2009; ISBN 3-8228-3156-5
  • Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa (2017) - Special thanks

Screenplays

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Gale 2003, p. 121.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Bio". Stuart Galbraith IV's CINEBLOGARAMA. Archived from the original on July 27, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  3. ^ "Public Catalog – Copyright Catalog". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved August 11, 2015. Search for Name "Galbraith Stuart"{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. ^ "Stuart Galbraith IV". DVD Talk.
  5. ^ "Our Members". Online Film Critics Society. May 28, 2012. Archived from the original on July 3, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2014.
  6. ^ Okazaki, Steven (Director) (November 25, 2016). Mifune: The Last Samurai (Motion picture). United States: Creative Associates Limited.

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