NYU DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES

History of Japanese Cinema Bibliography

Allison, Anne. Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Berkeley: University of
California Press. (2006)

Allyn, John. Kon Ichikawa: A Guide to References and Resources. New York: G.K. Hall & Co. (1985)

Anderson, Joseph L. When the Twain Meet: Seven Samurai vs. The Magnificent Seven. Film Quarterly,
Vol. 15. #3. (Spring 1962) pp. 55-58.

-----------------. The Spaces in Between: American Criticism of Japanese Films, Wide Angle. Vol. 1. #4.
(1977) pp. 2-7.

Anderson, Joseph L. and Richie Donald. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. Expanded ed. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. (1982)

Andrew, Dudley and Cavanaugh, Carole. Sansho Dayu. London: British Film Institute. (2000)

Andrew, Dudley and Paul Andrew. Kenji Mizoguchi: A Guide to References and Resources. New York: G.K.
Hall Co. (1981)

Anonymous. Misoguchi in Spectrum, Cinema (L.A.), Vol. 6. #3. (Spring 1971) pp. 12-20. (Trans. from
Kinema Jumpo, incl. Mizoguichis notes on his own films and an interview with scriptwriter Yoda.)

Anonymous. Ozu Spectrum, Cinema (L.A.). Vol. 6. #1 (no date), pp. 2-8. (3 articles trans. from Kinema
Jumpo- biblio. of articles included.)

Branigan, Edward. The Space of Equinox Flower. Screen. Vol. 17 #2 (Summer, 1976)

Barr, Stephen H. Reframing Mizoguchi. Film Criticism. Vol. 8. #3 (Fall 1983)

Barthes, Roland. Empire of Signs. New York: Hill & Wang. (1982)

Baskett, Michael. The Attractive Empire: Colonial Asia in Japanese Imperial Film Culture, 1931-1953. Ph.D.
diss., University of California, Los Angeles. (2000)

Bazerman, C. Tune in Play and Film: Macbeth and Throne of Blood, Literature/Film Quarterly. (Fall 1977)
pp. 331-38.

Belton, John. The Crucified Lovers of Mizoguchi, Film Quarterly. Vol. 25, #1. (Fall 1971) pp. 15-19.

Benedict, Ruth. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (1946). New York: Mariner
Books. (2005)

Bernardi, Joanne. The Early Development of the Gendaigeki Screenplay: Kaeriyama Norimasa, Kurihara
Tomas, Tanizaki Junichiro and the Pure Film Movement. Ph.D. diss., Columbia University. (1992)

-----------------. Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement. Detroit: Wayne
University Press. (2001)

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Blue, James. Susumu Hani. Film Comment. (Spring 1969) pp. 24-41. Interview.

Blumanthal, J. Macbeth into Throne of Blood, Sight & Sound. (Autumn 1965) pp. 190-195.

Bock, Audie. Japanese Film Directors. New York: Kodansha. (1983)

Bolton, Christopher, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. and Takajuki Tatsumi, eds. Robot Ghosts and Wired
Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (2007)

Bordwell, David. Mizoguchi and the Evolution of Film Language. Cinema and Language. Stephen Heath and
Patricia Mellencamp eds. Los Angels: American Film Institute. (1983)

---------------. Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1988)

---------------. Our Dream-Cinema: Western Historiography and the Japanese Film, Film Reader 4. (1979), 45.

---------------. To the Distant Observer. Wide Angle Vol.3. #.4 (1980) pp. 70-73. (Book Review)

Broderick, Mick, ed. Hibakusha Cinema. London: Kegan Paul International. (1996)

Brown, Steven T. Cinema Anime. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2006)

Burch, Noel. To The Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema. Berkeley: University of
California Press. (1979)

----------------. Approaching Japanese Cinema. Cinema and Language. Stephen Heath and Patricia Mellencamp
eds. Los Angels: American Film Institute. (1983)
Cameron, Ian. Nagisa Oshima. Movie. Vol. 17. (Winter 1969-70) pp. 7-15. (Article, interview, filmography)

Cardullo, Bert, ed. Akira Kurosawa: Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. (2007)

Cazdyn, Eric M. The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan. Durham: Duke University Press (2002)
----------------. Problem Cinema: Culture, Capital and Form in Japan. Ph.D. diss., U. of California, San Diego.
(1998)

Chun, Jayson Makoto. A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots?: A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953-
1973. New York: Routledge. (2006)

Cohen, Robert. A Japanese Romantic: Teinosuke Kinugasa. Sight & Sound. Vol. 45. #3. (Summer 1976)
pp. 164-69.

-----------------. Mizoguchi and Modernism: Structure, Culture, Point of View, Sight & Sound. Vol. 47. #2.
(Spring 1978) pp. 110-118.

Cornyetz, Nina. The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire. New York:
Routledge. (2007)

Davis, Darrell William. Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style and National Identity in Prewar Japanese
Film. Ph.D. diss., The University of Wisconsin Madison. (1990)

-----------------. Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film. New York:
Columbia University Press. (1996)

Desser, David. Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press. (1988)

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-----------------. Kurosawas Eastern Western: Sanjuro and the Influence of Shane. Film Criticism. Vol. 8. #1
(Fall 1983)

-----------------. Ozus Tokyo Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997)

----------------. The Samurai Films of Akira Kurosawa. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. (1983)

Dower, John. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon. (1987)

Dym, Jeffrey. Benshi, Japanese Silent Film Narrators and Their Forgotten Narrative Art of Setsumei: A History
of Japanese Silent Film Narration. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. (2003)

-----------------. Benshi, Poets of the Dark: Japanese Silent Film Narrators and Their Forgotten Narrative Art of
Setsumei, 1896-1939. Ph.D. diss., University of Hawaii. (1998)

Earhart, David C. Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
(2008)

Ehrlich, Linda C. The Artists Desire: Eight Films of Mizoguchi Kenji. Ph.D. diss., University of Hawaii. (1989)

Ehrlich, Linda C. and David Desser, eds. Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and
Cinema of China and Japan. Austin: University of Texas Press. (2000)

Field, Simon and Tony Rayns. Branded to Thrill: The Delirious Cinema of Suzuki
Seijun. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts. (1994)

Fujiki, Hideaki. Multiplying Personas: The Formation of Film Stars in Modern Japan. Ph.D. diss., The
University of Wisconsin Madison. (2005)

Furuya, Maho. Japans Foreign Trade of Media and Cultural Products in the Age of Globalization: Factors,
Characteristics, and Implications. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Buffalo. (2005)

Galbraith IV, Stuart. The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.
New York: Faber & Faber. (2002)

Gerow, Aaron. Kitano Takeshi. London: British Film Institute. (2007)

___________,. Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010).

-----------------. Writing a Pure Cinema: Articulations of Early Japanese Film. Ph.D., diss., University of Iowa.
(1996)

Gerow, Aaron and Abe Mark Nornes, eds. In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru.
Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing. (2006)

Giles, Dennis. The Tao in Woman of the Dunes. Film Heritage, Vol. 1, #3. (Spring 1966) pp. 23-28.

Gilliatt, Penelope. Sometimes the Twain, New Yorker Vol. 48. #7. (April 8, 1972) pp. 102-06. (On Ozus
TOKYO STORY)

Goodwin, James. Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
(1993)

-----------------, ed. Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa. New York: G.K. Hall & Co. (1994)

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Guy, Rory. An Interview with Toshiro Mifune, Cinema (L.A.), No. 1. (1969) pp. 28-31.

Harootunian, Harry. Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. (2001)

Hayashi, Sharon. Traveling Film History: Language and Landscape in the Japanese Cinema, 1931-1945.
Ph.D. diss., The University of Chicago. (2003)

Heath, Stephen. Added Attraction: The Question of Oshima, Wide Angle. Vol. 2, #1. (1977)

High, Peter B. The War Cinema of Imperial Japan and Its Aftermath: An Introduction, Wide Angle, v. 1,
#4. (1977) pp. 19-21.

-----------------. Oshima: A Vita Sexualis on Film, Wide Angle. Vol. 2, #4. (1978) pp. 28-31.

-----------------. The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years War, 1931-1945. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press. (2003)

Hirano, Kyoko. Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945-1952. Ph.D. diss., New York
University. (1988)
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----------------. Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: The Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945-1952.
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute. (1992)

Hothof, Marc. Ozus Reactionary Cinema, Jump Cut. no. 18. (1978) pp. 20-22.

Hughes, J. Oshima in Paris; Reaching for the Flame, Take One. Vol. 6, #10. (Sep 1978) pp. 25-27.

Ichikawa, Kon (et al.). The Uniqueness of Kon Ichikawa, Cinema L.A., #2. (1970) pp. 30-31.
(Symposium)

Igarashi, Yoshikuni. Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970.
Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000)

Iida, Shinbi. Kurosawa. Cinema (L.A.), Aug-Sep 1963. (Interview)

Iwabuchi, Koichi. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke
University Press. (2002)

Izbicki, Joanne. Scorched Cityscapes and Silver Screens: Negotiating Defeat and Democracy Through Cinema
in Occupied Japan. Ph.D. diss., Cornell University. (1997)

Kasza, Gregory J. The State and the Mass Media in Japan 1918-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press.
(1988)

Kehr, Dave. The Last Rising Sun. Film Comment.

Kiju, Yoshida. Ozus Anti-Cinema. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. (2003)

Kinder, Marsha. Throne of Blood: A Mortality Dance. Literature/Film Quarterly. (Fall 1977) pp. 339-45.

Kinoshita, Chika. Mise-en-Scene of Desire: The Films of Mizoguchi Kenji. Ph.D. diss., The University of
Chicago. (2007)

Kirihara, Donald. Kabuki, Cinema and Mizoguchi Kenji. Cinema and Language. Los Angeles: American Film
Institute. (1983)

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-----------------. Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (1992)

-----------------. Style and Tradition in Four Films by Kenji Mizoguchi. Ph.D. diss., The University of Wisconsin
Madison. (1989)

Koch, Carl. Japanese Cinema, Close-Up. (Dec 1931) pp. 296-99.

Kurosawa, Akira. Something Like an Autobiography. New York: Vintage. (1983)

Kushner, Barak. The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
(2007)

Lamarre, Thomas. Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Junichiro on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics. Ann
Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. (2005)

Leach James. Mizoguchi and Ideology: Two Films From the Forties. Film Criticism. Vol 8. #1 (Fall 1983)

Le Fanu, Mark. Mizoguchi and Japan. London: British Film Institute. (2005)

Leyda, Jay. The Films of Kurosawa, Sight & Sound. (Oct-Dec, 1954) pp. 74-78.

----------------. Modesty and Pretension in Two New Films. Film Culture. Vol. 2, #4, Issue 10. (1956) pp. 3-7.

Loader, Ned. Listen to the Voices from the Sea: The Art and Politics of a Japanese Anti-War Film. Ph.D.
diss., Emory University. (1993)

Lunning, Frenchy, ed. Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press (2006)

-----------------, ed. Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (2007)

Mancia, Adriene Johnson. Woman in the Dunes Film Comment. Vol. 3, #1 (Winter 1965) pp. 55-60.

McCormick, Ruth. In The Realm of the Senses. Cineaste, Vol. 7, #4. (With an Interview with Nagisa
Oshima)

McDonald, Keiko I. Cinema East: A Critical Study of Major Japanese Film. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson
University. (1983)

-----------------. From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. (1999)

-----------------. Japanese Classical Theater in Films. London: Associated University Presses. (1994)

-----------------. Mizoguchi. Boston: Twayne Publishers. (1984)

-----------------. Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (2006)

McRoy, Jay, ed. Japanese Horror Cinema. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (2005)

McWilliams, Dean. The Ritual Cinema of Yukio Mishima. Wide Angle. Vol. 2 #4 (1977)

Mellen, Joan. In the Realm of the Senses. London: British Film Institute. (2004)

-----------------. Voices from the Japanese Cinema. New York: Liveright. (1975)

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-----------------. Seven Samurai. London: British Film Institute. (2002)

-----------------. The Waves at Genjis Door: Japan Through its Cinema. New York: Pantheon Books. (1976)

Michelson, Annette, ed. Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima. Cambridge: MIT
Press. (1993)

Milne, Tom. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice. Sigh & Sound, Vol. 32, #4. (Autumn 1963) pp. 182-186.

Miyao, Daisuke. Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Durham: Duke University
Press. (2007)

Morris, Peter. Mizoguchi Kenji. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute. (1967)

Napier, Susan J. Anime from Akira to Howls Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation.
Updated edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2005)

-----------------. From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2007)

Nogami, Teruyo. Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa. St. Paul: Stone Bridge Press.
(2006)

Noletti, Arthur and David Desser, eds. Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (1992)

Nornes, Abe Markus. Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
(2007)

-----------------. Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press. (2007)

-----------------, ed. Japan/America Film Wars: World War II Propaganda and its Cultural Contexts. Chur,
Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers. (1994)

----------------. Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era Through Hiroshima. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. (2003)

Nygren, Scott. Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. (2007)

Ogi, Masahiro. Kurosawa, Dodeshaden and Japanese Culture. Cinema (L.A.). Vol. 7, #2, (Spring (?), pp. 18-
19. Trans. from Kinema Jumpo.

Phillips, Alistair and Julian Stringer, eds. Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. New York: Routledge.
(2008)

Polan, Dana. Politics as Process in Three Films by Nagisa Oshima. Film Criticism. Vol. 8, #1 (Fall 1983)

Prince, Steven. The Warriors Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. Revised and expanded edition.
Princeton: Princeton University Press. (1999)

Quandt, James, ed. Kon Ichikawa. Ontario: Cinematheque Ontario. (2001)

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Raine, Michael John. Youth, Body, and Subjectivity in the Japanese Cinema, 1955-1960. Ph.D. diss., The
University of Iowa. (2002)

Ramlochand, John. Japanese Cinema: Time, Space, Nation. Ph.D. diss., McGill University. (2006)

Rayns, Tony. Tokyo Stories. Sight and Sound 50: 170-176. No. 3 (1981)

Rhode, Eric. Ugetsu Monogatari. Sight & Sound, Vol. 31, #2. (Spring 1962) pp. 97-99.

Richie, Donald. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. New York: Kodansha International. (2001)

------------- (ed.). Focus on Rashomon. New Jersey: Princeton University Press (1972)

---------------. Japanese Cinema: Film Style and National Character. Garden City: Doubleday. (1971)

---------------. Japanese Movies. Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau. (1961)

---------------. Ozu: His Life and Films. Berkeley: University of California Press. (1974)

---------------. The Films of Akira Kurosawa. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1965)

---------------. The Japanese Movie: An Illustrated History. London: Ward Lock and Company. (1966)

---------------. Kurosawa or Kurosawa. Sight & Sound, (In two parts) Vol. 33. (Summer 1964) pp. 108-113 and
Vol. 33, #4. (Autumn 1964) pp. 200-203.

-----------------. A Personal Record. Film Quarterly, Fall 1960, pp. 20-30. Interviews and discussions of
Kurosawa, Konoshita, Toyoda, Yoshimira, Mifune, Hani)

-----------------. The Later Films of Yosujiro Ozu. Film Quarterly (Fall 1959)

-----------------. Red Beard. Film Quarterly, Vol. 19, #1. (Fall 1965)

-----------------. The Several Sides of Kon Ichikawa. Sight & Sound. (Spring 1966) pp. 84-86.
-----------------. Yasujiro Ozu, a Biographical Filmography. Film Comment. Vol. 7, #1. (Spring 1971)

Richie, Donald and Anderson, Joseph L. Kenji Mizoguichi. Sight & Sound, Vol. 25, #2. (Autumn 1955) pp.
76-81.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Richies Ozu: Our Prehistoric Present. Sight and Sound. Vol. 44 #3 (Summer 1975)

Ryu, Chishu. Yasujiro, Ozu, Sight & Sound. Vol. 33, #2. (Autumn 1955) pp. 76-81.

Sato, Barbara. The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan. Duke University
Press, Durham. (2003)

Sato, Tadao. Currents in Japanese Cinema. New York: Kodansha. (1982)

-----------------. Kenji Mizoguchi and the Art of Japanese Cinema. Oxford: Berg Publishers. (2008)

-----------------. The Art of Yasujiro Ozu. Wide Angle. Vol. 1, #4.

(1977) pp. 44-49.

-----------------. The Japanese Cinema: The New Left. Sight & Sound. Vol. 42, #3. (Summer 1973)

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-----------------. War as a Spiritual Exercise: Japans National Policy Films. Wide Angle, Vol. 1, #4. (1977) pp.
22-24.

Schilling, Mark. Contemporary Japanese Film. New York: Weatherhill. (1999)

Schodt, Frederick L. Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Japan: Kodansha International. (1983)

Schrader, Paul. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. (1988)

Silke, James R. Harakiri, Kobayashi, Humanism. Cinema L.A. (Jun-Jul 1963) p. 32.

Silver, Alain. Samurai. Film Comment. Vol. 11, 35. (Sep-Oct 1975)

Silverberg, Miriam. Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. Berkeley:
University of California Press. (2007)

Standish, Isolde. Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic
Hero. Richmond: Curzon. (2000)

------------------. A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film. New York: Continuum. (2005)

Storry, Richard. A History of Modern Japan. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. (1982)

Tessier, Max and Buruma, Ian. Japanese Cameraman: Kayuo Miyagawa. Sight & Sound. Vol. 48, #3.
(Summer 1979) pp. 188-90.

Thompson, Kristin. Notes on the Spatial System of Ozus Early Film. Wide Angle. Vol. 1, #4. (1977) pp. 8-
18.

Thompson, Kristin and Bordwell, David. Space & Narrative in the Films of Ozu. Screen. Vol. 17, #2.
(Summer 1976) pp. 41-78. (Also see letters of Rosenbaum, Thompson, Bordwell in Screen. Vol. 17, #4.
(Winter 1976-77)

Tosaka, Yuji. Hollywood Goes to Tokyo: American Cultural Expansion and Imperial Japan, 1918-1941. Ph.D.
diss., The Ohio State University. (2003)

Tsutsui, William M. and Michiko Ito, eds. In Godzillas Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global
Stage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2006)

Tucker, Richard N. Japan: Film Image. London: Studio Vista. (1973)

Turim, Maureen and Mowitt, John. Thirty Seconds Over Oshimas The War of Tokyo or The Young Man
Who Left His Will on Film. Wide Angle. Vol. 1, #4. (1977) pp. 34-43.

Turim, Maureen. Rituals, Desire, Death in Oshimas Ceremonies. Enclitic 5:2/6:1 (Fall 1981/Spring 1982)

-----------------. The Films of Nagisa Oshima: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast. Berkeley: University of California
Press. (1998)

Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo. Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press. (2008)

-----------------. The Production of Modernity in Japanese Cinema: Shochiko Kamata Style in the 1920s and
1930s. Ph.D. diss., The University of Iowa. (2000)

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Washburn, Dennis and Carole Cavanaugh, eds. Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. (2000)

Willis, Don. Yasujiro Ozu: Emotion & Contemplation. Sight & Sound (Winter, 1978-79) pp. 44-49.

-----------------. A Conversation with Two Japanese Film Stars. Film Comment. (Winter 1965) pp. 61-65.

Wood, Robin. Mizoguchi. Film Comment. Vol. 9, #2. (Mar-Apr 1973)

-----------------. Mizoguchi: The Ghost Princess and the Seaweed Gatherer. Film Comment. Vol. 9, #2. (Mar-
Apr 1973) pp. 32-40.

Yoshida, Junji. Origins of Japanese Film Comedy and Questions of Colonial Modernity Ph.D. diss., University
of Oregon (2006)

Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema. Durham: Duke University Press. (2000)

---------------------. Logic of Sentiment: The Postwar Japanese Cinema and Questions of Modernity Ph.D. diss.,
University of California, San Diego. (1993)

Zeller, D. Christian. Tanizaki and Film: An Introduction with three early writings in translation M.A. thesis,
University of Southern California. (1996)

Filmography

Susumu Hani. Bad Boys (1961)

She and He (1963)

Kon Ichikawa. The Burmese Harlp (1956)

Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
An Actors revenge (1963)

Shohei Imamura. The Insect Woman (1963)

The Pornographers (1966)

Tadashi Imai. Alone on the Pacific

Teinosuke Kinugasa. A Page of Madness (1926)

Gate of Hell (1954)

Masaki Kobayashi. Human Condition:

Part I No Greater Love (1959)
Part II Road to Eternity (1959)
Part III The Soldiers Prayer (1961)
Harakiri (Seppukiu) (1962)
Kaseki (1975)

Kazuo Kuroki. Silence Has No Wings (1966)

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Akira Kurosawa. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
Drunken Angels (1948)
Roshomon (1950)
Ikiru (Living) (1952)
Seven Samurai (1956)
Throne of Blood (1957)
High and Low (1963)
Dodes Ka-Den (1970)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Kagemusha (1980)

Kenji Mizoguchi. Sisters of the Gion (1936)

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Ugetsu Monogatain (1953)
Sansho the Barliff (1954)
The Life of Oharu (1952)
Princess Yang Kwei Fei (1955)

Nagisa Oshima. Boy (1969)

The man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
The Ceremony (1971)
Death By Hanging (1968)

Yasujiro Ozu. Passing Fancy (1933)

I Was Born But (1932)
There Was a Father (1942)
Late Spring (1949)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
The Tokyo Story (1953)
Equinox Flower (1958)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Late Autumn (1960)

Kaneto Shindo. The Island (1961)

Masahiro Shinoda. Double Suicide (1969)

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)

Shuji Terayama. Pastoral Hide and Seek (1975)

Hiroshi Teshigahara. Women in the Dunes (1964)

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