Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 (Book)

Edited by John Berra

Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favourites and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and film scholars. Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than 150 new film reviews, complemented by full-colour film stills, and significantly expanded references for further study. From the Golden Age to the film festival favourites of today, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.

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Building on and bringing up to date the material presented in the first instalment of Directory of World Cinema: Japan, this volume continues the exploration of the enduring classics, cult favourites and contemporary blockbusters of Japanese cinema with new contributions from leading critics and film scholars. Among the additions to this volume are in-depth treatments of two previously unexplored genres – youth cinema and films depicting lower-class settings – considered alongside discussions of popular narrative forms, including J-Horror, samurai cinema, anime and the Japanese New Wave.

Accompanying the critical essays in this volume are more than 150 new film reviews, complemented by full-colour film stills, and significantly expanded references for further study. From the Golden Age to the film festival favourites of today, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 completes this comprehensive treatment of a consistently fascinating national cinema.

John Berra is a lecturer in Film and Language Studies at Renmin University of China. He is the author of Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production (2008); editor of the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent volumes 1, 2 and 3; editor of the Directory of World Cinema:Japan volumes 1, 2 and 3; co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (2012) and World Film Locations: Shanghai (2014); and co-editor of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. He has also contributed to Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (2014).

Film of the Year
Sawako Decides

Festival Focus
JAPAN CUTS

Industry Spotlight
Interview with John Williams

Cultural Crossover
Japanese Cinema and Bunraku Puppetry
Japanese Cinema and Photography

Scoring Cinema
Kikujiro

Stardom and Cinema
Kinuyo Tanaka

Directors
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tetsuya Nakashima
Naoko Ogigami
Hiroshi Shimizu
Shuji Terayama

Alternative Japan

Anime / Animation

Chambara / Samurai Cinema

Contemporary Blockbusters

J-Horror / Japanese Horror

Jidai-geki / Period Drama

Nuberu bagu/ The Japanese New Wave

 Seishun eiga / Japanese Youth Cinema

Shomin-geki / Lower Class Life

Yakuza / Gangster 

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