Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Foreword: Outside Views of the Japanese Film

pp xiii-xviii

Introduction

pp xix-xxviii

PART ONE - WORDING THE IMAGE/IMAGING THE WORD

pp 1-2

1 - The Word before the Image: Criticism, the Screenplay, and the Regulation of Meaning in Prewar Japanese Film Culture

pp 3-35

2 - The Cinematic Art of Higuchi Ichiyô's Takekurabe (Comparing Heights, 1895–1896)

pp 36-58

3 - Once More and Gosho's Romanticism in the Early Occupation Period

pp 59-88

4 - The Taunt of the Gods: Reflections on Woman In The Dunes

pp 89-107

5 - Adapting The Makioka Sisters

pp 108-125

6 - In the Show House of Modernity: Exhaustive Listing in Itami Jûzô's Tanpopo

pp 126-146

PART TWO - REFLECTIONS OF IDENTITY

pp 147-148

7 - Where's Mama? The Sobbing Yakuza of Hasegawa Shin

pp 149-173

8 - Saving the Children: Films by the Most “Casual” of Directors, Shimizu Hiroshi

pp 174-201

9 - Ishihara Yûjirô: Youth, Celebrity, and the Male Body in late-1950s Japan

pp 202-225

10 - Otoko wa tsurai yo: Nostalgia or Parodic Realism?

pp 226-249

11 - A Working Ideology for Hiroshima: Imamura Shôhei's Black Rain

pp 250-270

PART THREE - OUTSIDE THE FRAME OF CULTURE

pp 271-272

12 - Piss and Run: Or How Ozu Does a Number on SCAP

pp 273-292

13 - In the Realm of the Censors: Cultural Boundaries and the Poetics of the Forbidden

pp 293-317

14 - The Arrest of Time: The Mythic Transgressions of Vengeance Is Mine

pp 318-341

15 - The Frenzy of Metamorphosis: The Body in Japanese Pornographic Animation

pp 342-366

Selected Bibliography of Articles and Books in English

pp 367-372

Index

pp 373-388