Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3
Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3 (Book)
Back for a second encore following the success of the first two instalments, this volume takes as its subject not the genres or movements that constitute the cinema of the Land of the Rising Sun but the filmmakers themselves. Focusing entirely on directors, the contributors here offer over forty essays on key Japanese auteurs, ranging from the Golden Age to the New Wave to the present day, with inclusion of trend-setting and taboo-breaking genre specialists who have achieved a significant cult following.
Though the spotlight is on the filmmakers, this new volume continues to consider a wide range of genres associated with Japanese cinema, including animation, contemporary independent cinema, J-Horror, the New Wave, period drama, science fiction and yakuza.
Edition
Like its predecessors, Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3 endeavours to move scholarly criticism of Japanese film out of the academy and into the hands of cinephiles the world over. This volume will be warmly welcomed by those with an interest in Japanese cinema that extends beyond its established names to equally remarkable filmmakers who have yet to receive such rigorous attention.
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).
Introduction by the Editor
Films of the Year
Hard Romanticker
Himizu
Kotoko
A Letter To Momo
No Man's Zone
Festival Focus
Tokyo Filmex and the Problem of the Niche
Industry Spotlight
Interview with Susumu Hani
Directors
Shinji Aoyama
Kinji Fukasaku
Kazuo Hara
Yasuharu Hasebe
Eikoh Hosoe
Jun Ichikawa
Kon Ichikawa
Shohei Imamura
Katsuhito Ishii
Teruo Ishii
Shunji Iwai
Akio Jissoji
Ryuhei Kitamura
Takeshi Kitano
Masaki Kobayashi
Masaru Konuma
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Akira Kurosawa
Yasuzo Masumura
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Takashi Miike
Kenji Misumi
Goro Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Yoshimitsu Morita
Hideo Nakata
Mamoru Oshii
Nagisa Oshima
Yasujiro Ozu
Rintaro
Kaneto Shindo
Makoto Shinkai
Masahiro Shinoda
Sion Sono
Seijun Suzuki
Isao Takahata
Yuki Tanada
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Yutaka Tsuchiya
Shin’ya Tsukamoto
Koji Wakamatsu
Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Takahisa Zeze
'This is certainly a book that film students, scholars and Japanese film enthusiasts will enjoy and benefit from having it in their collection.'
