Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema - 3 September 2012
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, the new book by Jasper
Sharp The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and
India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside
assistance for over a century. Japanese cinema’s long history of
production and considerable output has seen films made in a
variety of genres, including melodramas, romances, gangster
movies, samurai movies, musicals, horror films, and monster
films. It has also produced some of the most famous names in the
history of cinema: Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Beat Takeshi,
Toshiro Mifune, Godzilla, The Ring, Akira, Rashomon, and Seven
Samurai. Published by Scarecrow Press, The Historical Dictionary
of Japanese Cinema is an introduction to and overview of the
long history of Japanese cinema. It aims to provide an entry
point for those with little or no familiarity with the subject,
while it is organized so that scholars in the field will also be
able to use it to fin