Japanese cinema : texts and contexts / edited by Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-349) and index.

The salaryman's panic time: Ozu Yasujirō's I was born, but...(1932) / Alastair Phillips -- All for money: Mizoguchi Kenji's Osaka elegy (1936) / Mori Toshie -- Turning Serious: Yamanaka Sadao's Humanity and paper balloons (1937) / Freda Freiberg -- Country retreat: Shimizu Hiroshi's Ornamental hairpin (1941) / Alexander Jacoby -- The riddle of the vase: Ozu Yasujirō's Late spring (1949) / Abé Mark Nornes -- History through cinema: Mizoguchi Kenji's The life of O-Haru (1952) / Joan Mellen -- The menace from the south seas: Honda Ishirō's Godzilla (1954) / Yomota Inuhiko -- Seven Samurai and six women: Kurosawa Akira's Seven samurai (1954) / D.P. Martinez --Women's stories in post-war Japan: Naruse Mikio's Late chrysanthemums (1954) / Catherine Russell -- A cinematic creation: Ichikawa Kon's Conflagration (1958) / Keiko I. McDonald -- Modernization without modernity: Masumura Yasuzō's Giants and toys (1958) / Michael Raine -- Questions of the new: Ōshima Nagisa's Cruel story of youth (1960) / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Ethnicizing the body and film: Teshigahara Hiroshi's Woman in the dunes (1964) / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- Dark visions of Japanese film noir: Suzuki Seijun's Branded to kill (1967) / Daisuke Miyao -- Eroticism in two dimensions: Shinoda Masahiro's Double suicide (1969) / Carole Cavanaugh -- Transgression and the politics of porn: Ōshima Nagisa's In the realm of the senses (1976) / Isolde Standish -- Unsettled visions: Imamura Shōhei's Vengeance is mine (1979) / Alastair Phillips -- Playing with postmodernism: Morita Yoshimitsu's The family game (1983) / Aaron Gerow -- Transgression and retribution: Yanagimachi Mitsuo's Fire festival (1985) / Donald Richie -- Community and connection: Itami Jūzō's Tampopo (1985) / Linda Ehrlich -- The imagination of the transcendent: Kore-eda Hirokazu's Maborosi (1995) / David Desser -- Therapy for him and her: Kitano Takeshi's Hana-bi (1997) / Darrell William Davis -- The original and the copy: Nakata Hideo's Ring (1998) / Julian Stringer -- The global markets for anime: Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited away (2001) / Rayna Denison.