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• Biographies (7) • Autobiographies (3) • Encyclopedias (6) • Dictionaries (7) • Essays (5) • Films Reviews (3) • Studies (107) • Stories (1) • Photos (5) • Didactic (1)
• Biographies (0) • Autobiographies (2) • Encyclopedias (2) • Dictionaries (3) • Essays (0) • Films Reviews (0) • Studies (34) • Stories (1) • Photos (2) • Didactic (1)
• Biographies (7 books)(0 book)
Ishiro Honda (2023)
A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa
by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Director > Ishirô Honda
Miyazakiworld (2019)
A Life in Art
by Susan Napier
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Director > Hayao Miyazaki
Takashi Shimura (2019)
Chameleon of Japanese Cinema
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Takashi Shimura
Sessue Hayakawa (2007)
Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Actor > Sessue Hayakawa
Mizoguchi and Japan (2005)
by Mark Le Fanu
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: Director > Kenji Mizoguchi
The Warrior's Camera (1999)
The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
• Autobiographies (3 books)(2 books)
My Life As a Filmmaker (2017)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Subject: Director > Satsuo Yamamoto
Fragrant Orchid (2016)
The Story of My Early Life
by Yoshiko Yamaguchi and Sakuya Fujiwara
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Subject: Actor > Shirley Yamaguchi
• Encyclopedias (6 books)(2 books)
Gun and Sword (2013)
An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980
by Chris D.
Publisher: Poison Fang Books
The Japanese Filmography (2010)
A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900-1994
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (2004)
by Jasper Sharp and Tom Mes
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Dictionaries (7 books)(3 books)
Cultural Guide to Anime and Manga (2023)
by Pamela Gossin and Marc Hairston
Publisher: Referencepoint Pr Inc
Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies (2009)
by Abé Markus Nornes and Aaron Gerow
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors (2008)
From the Silent Era to the Present Day
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Essays (5 books)(0 book)
Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze (2023)
Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought
by Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Giant Creatures in Our World (2017)
Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture
Dir. Camille D.G. Mustachio and Jason Barr
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Japanese Film and the Floating Mind (2016)
Cinematic Contemplations of Being
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Cinematic Landscapes (2000)
Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan
Dir. Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser
Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Films Reviews (3 books)(0 book)
The Ghibliotheque Anime Movie Guide (2022)
The Essential Guide to Japanese Animated Cinema
by Jake Cunningham and Michael Leader
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing
Japanese Cinema (2022)
A Personal Journey
by Peter Cowie
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Subject: Countries
Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films (2007)
A Critical Analysis and Filmography of 103 Features Released in the United States, 1950–1992
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Studies (107 books)(34 books)
Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation (2025)
The Adaptation of Children's Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Murakami Haruki on Film (2024)
by Marc Yamada
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Through a Nuclear Lens (2024)
France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema (2024)
Dir. Rachel DiNitto
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
The Cinematic Influence (2024)
Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu (2024)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu
Godzilla / Godzilla Raids Again (2023)
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imperial Japan on Screen, 1931–2022 (2023)
by Bob Herzberg
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Historical films
Film and Fashion in Japan, 1923-39 (2023)
Consuming the 'West'
by Lois Barnett
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima (2023)
Perspectives on Nuclear Disasters
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Involuntary Consent (2023)
The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Kurosawa, Shakespeare and Others (2023)
Art and the Human Experience
by Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède
Publisher: Michel Houdiard
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
The Japan/America Film Wars (2023)
World War II Propaganda and its Cultural Contexts
Dir. Abe Mark Nornes and Fukushima Yukio
Publisher: Routledge
Cinema of Discontent (2023)
Representations of Japan's High-Speed Growth
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Japanese Visual Media (2023)
Politicizing the Screen
by Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari
Publisher: Routledge
The Russian Kurosawa (2023)
Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-conformist (2023)
The Films of Suzuki Seijun
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Subject: Director > Suzuki Seijun
Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life (2023)
Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
by Yuxin Ma
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire (2023)
Fragmenting History
Publisher: Routledge
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968 (2022)
An Ethnographic Study
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Making Audiences (2022)
A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Transnational Kaiju (2022)
Exploitation, Globalisation and Cult Monster Movies
by Steven Rawle
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The Man Who Leapt Through Film (2022)
The Art of Mamoru Hosoda
Publisher: Abrams Books
Subject: Director > Mamoru Hosoda
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema (2022)
Dir. Joanne Bernardi and Shota T. Ogawa
Publisher: Routledge
Transpacific Convergences (2022)
Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
by Denise Khor
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema (2022)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Director > Suzuki Seijun
Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth (2022)
Gaian Environmentalism in Daikaiju Cinema
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
Japanese High School Films (2021)
Iconography, Nostalgia and Discipline
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film (2021)
The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
by Marc Yamada
Publisher: Routledge
Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film (2021)
by David Stahl
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries
Dialectics without Synthesis (2020)
Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Theory
Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film (2019)
Publisher: Peter Lang
The Japanese Adult Video Industry (2019)
by Heung-Wah Wong and Hoi-Yan Yau
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Porn films
Powers of the Real (2019)
Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits (2019)
The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura
Dir. Lindsay Coleman and David Desser
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Shôhei Imamura
Persistently Postwar (2019)
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Dir. Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Méndez and Dolores P. Martinez
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Rashomon Effects (2018)
Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies
Dir. Blair Davis, Robert Anderson and Jan Walls
Publisher: Routledge
Tanaka Kinuyo (2018)
Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity
Dir. Irene González-López and Michael Smith
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Kinuyo Tanaka
Double Visions, Double Fictions (2018)
The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Japan's Green Monsters (2018)
Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema
by Sean Rhoads and Brooke McCorkle
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Reorienting Ozu (2018)
A Master and His Influence
Dir. Jinhee Choi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu
A Dream of Resistance (2017)
The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Director > Masaki Kobayashi
Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War (2017)
Dir. King-fai Tam, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Early Cinema in Asia (2017)
Dir. Nick Deocompo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The End of Japanese Cinema (2017)
Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies
Publisher: Duke University Press
Apocalypse Then (2017)
American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951–1967
by Mike Bogue
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro (2017)
Histories of the Everyday
by Woojeong Joo
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Director > Yasujirô Ozu
Screening Enlightenment (2017)
Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Kaiju Film (2016)
A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters
by Jason Barr
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema (2015)
Critical Essays
Dir. Matthew Edwards
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi (2015)
by Adam Bingham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Japanese and American Horror (2014)
A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Coproducing Asia (2014)
Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Cinema of Actuality (2013)
Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics
Publisher: Duke University Press
Drawing on Tradition (2012)
Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
All The Emperor's Men (2012)
Kurosawa's Pearl Harbor
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age (2012)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Film and Political Culture in Postwar Japan (2012)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Japanese Counterculture (2011)
The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Director > Terayama Shuji
Visions of Japanese Modernity (2010)
Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
by Aaron Gerow
Publisher: University of California Press
The Attractive Empire (2009)
Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
The Art of Studio Gainax (2008)
Experimentation, Style and Innovation at the Leading Edge of Anime
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Introduction to Japanese Horror Film (2008)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio (2008)
Women and Japanese Modernity
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Director > Mikio Naruse
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams (2007)
Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
Dir. Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Time Frames (2007)
Japanese Cinema And the Unfolding of History
by Scott Nygren
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Forest of Pressure (2007)
Ogawa Shinsuke And Postwar Japanese Documentary
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Director > Ogawa Shinsuke
New Women of the Silent Screen (2006)
China, Japan, Hollywood Volume 20
Dir. Catherine Russell
Publisher: Duke University Press
The Cinema of Mamoru Oshii (2006)
Fantasy, Technology and Politics
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Mamoru Oshii
Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke (2005)
Laughter Through Tears
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Heinosuke Gosho
Imperial Screen (2003)
Japanese Film Culture In The Fifteen Years War, 1931-1945
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
The Flash of Capital (2002)
Film and Geopolitics in Japan
by Eric Cazdyn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Writing in Light (2001)
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Picturing Japaneseness (1996)
Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema (1993)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Subject: Director > Akira Kurosawa
Reframing Japanese Cinema (1992)
Authorship, Genre, History
Dir. Arthur Nolletti and David Desser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Eros Plus Massacre (1988)
An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema
by David Desser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
The Japanese Film (1983)
Art and Industry - Expanded Edition
by Joseph L. Anderson and Donald Richie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Stories (1 book)(1 book)
The Art of Censorship in Postwar Japan (2012)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Photos (5 books)(2 books)
The Art of the Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2022)
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Subject: One Film > The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World (2018)
Background illustrations and scenes from Anime and Manga works
Collective
Publisher: PIE books
A Sky Longing for Memories (2015)
The Art of Makoto Shinkai
Publisher: Vertical
Subject: Director > Makoto Shinkai
• Didactic (1 book)(1 book)
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