Reading a Japanese film
Subtitle: cinema in context
By: Keiko I. McDonald.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780824829391
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Synergy of theme, style, and dialogue : Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion (1936); title: More about dream, song, and symbol : Kurosawa's The drunken angel (1948); title: A Meiji novel for the screen : Toyoda's The mistress (1954); title: Period film par excellence : Inagaki's samurai trilogy (Musashi Miyamoto, 1954-56); title: Master of simplicity moving hearts to pity : Ozu's Drifting weeds (1959); title: Eros, politics, and folk religion : Shindo's Onibaba (1963); title: The age-old paradox of innocence and experience : Oguri's Muddy river (1981); title: Satire on the family and education in postwar Japan : Morita's The family game (1983); title: Defeat revisited : Shinoda's MacArthur's children (1984); title: Satire on contemporary Japan : Itami's A taxing woman (1987); title: Seminal animation film : Miyazaki's My neighbor Totoro (1988); title: Cultural responses to simplicity : Kurosawa's Madadayo (1993); title: The danger and allure of phantom light : Koreeda's Mabaroshi (1995); title: Stressed-out nineties youth in laid-back sixties dress : Kitano's Kids return (1995); title: Bitter sweet childhood : Yoichi Higashi's Village of dreams (1996); title: A woman director's approach to the country family : Kawase's Suzaku (1997).