Filmography of Case Study Films (In Chronological Order of Release)

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FILMOGRAPHY OF CASE STUDY FILMS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF RELEASE)

Kairo /Pulse 118 mins, col. Released: 2001 (Japan) Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Screenplay: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cinematography: Junichiro Hayashi Editing: Junichi Kikuchi Sound: Makio Ika Original Music: Takefumi Haketa Producers: Ken Inoue, Seiji Okuda, Shun Shimizu, Atsuyuki Shimoda, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, and Hiroshi Yamamoto Main Cast: Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Kenji Mizuhashi, and Masatoshi Matsuyo Production Companies: Daiei Eiga, Hakuhodo, Imagica, and Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV)

Doruzu /Dolls 114 mins, col. Released: 2002 (Japan) Director: Takeshi Kitano Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagijima

Editing: Takeshi Kitano Sound: Senji Horiuchi Original Music: Joe Hisaishi Producers: Masayuki Mori and Takio Yoshida Main Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miho Kanno, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara, Tsutomu Takeshige, and Kyoko Fukuda Production Companies: Bandai Visual Company, Offi ce Kitano, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Company, and TV Tokyo

Sukiyaki uesutan jango /Sukiyaki Western Django 121 mins, col. Released: 2007 (Japan) Director: Takashi Miike Screenplay: Takashi Miike and Masa Nakamura Cinematography: Toyomichi Kurita Editing: Yasushi Shimamura Sound: Jun Nakamura Original Music: Koji Endo Producers: Nobuyuki Tohya, Masao Owaki, and Toshiaki Nakazawa Main Cast: Hideaki Ito, Yusuke Iseya, Koichi Sato, Kaori Momoi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yoshino Kimura, Masanobu Ando, Shun Oguri, and Quentin Tarantino Production Companies: A-Team, Dentsu, Geneon Entertainment, Nagoya Broadcasting Network (NBN), Sedic International, Shogakukan, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan), Sukiyaki Western Django Film Partners, Toei Company, Tokyu Recreation, and TV Asahi

Okuribito /Departures 130 mins, col. Released: 2008 (Japan) Director: Yojiro Takita Screenplay: Kundo Koyama Cinematography: Takeshi Hamada Editing: Akimasa Kawashima Sound: Osamu Onodera and Satoshi Ozaki Original Music: Joe Hisaishi Producers: Toshiaki Nakazawa, Ichiro Nobukuni, Toshihisa Watai, and Yasuhiro Mase Main Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kimiko Yo, and Toru Minegishi FILMOGRAPHY OF CASE STUDY FILMS… 219

Production Companies: Amuse Soft Entertainment, Asahi Shimbunsha, Dentsu, Departures Film Partners, Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS), Sedic International, Shochiku Company, Shogakukan, TBS Radio and Communications, and Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)

Tetsuo 3 /Tetsuo: The Bullet Man 71 mins, col. and black and white Released: 2009 (Japan) Director: Shinya Tsukamoto Screenplay: Shinya Tsukamoto and Hisakatsu Kuroki Cinematography: Satoshi Hayashi, Takayuki Shida, and Shinya Tsukamoto Editing: Yuji Ambe and Shinya Tsukamoto Sound: Hirokazu Kato Original Music: Chu Ishikawa and Nine Inch Nails Producers: Shinichi Kawahara, Masayuki Tanashima, and Shinya Tsukamoto Main Cast: Eric Bossick, Shinya Tsukamoto, Yuko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Akiko Mono, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, and Prakhar Jain Production Companies: Asmik Ace Entertainment, Kaijyu Theatre, and Yahoo Japan

Jusan-nin no shikaku /13 Assassins 141 mins, col. Released: 2010 (Japan/UK) Director: Takashi Miike Screenplay: Daisuke Tengan and Kaneo Ikegami Cinematography: Nobuyasu Kita Editing: Kenji Yamashita Sound: Jun Nakamura Original Music: Koji Endo Producers: Takashi Hirajo, Minami Ichikawa, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toichiro Shiraishi, Jeremy Thomas, and Michihiko Yanagisawa Main Cast: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Goro Inagaki, Masachika Ichimura, Yusuke Iseya, Hiroki Matsukata, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masataka Kubota, Arata Furuta, and Ikki Sawamura Production Companies: Asahi Broadcasting Company (ABC), Dentsu, Higashi Nippon Broadcasting Company, Hiroshima Home TV, Hokkaido Television Broadcasting Company (HTBC), Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting Company (KABC), Nagoya Broadcasting Network (NBN), Recorded 220 FILMOGRAPHY OF CASE STUDY FILMS…

Picture Company (RPC), Sedic International, Shizuoka Asahi Television Company (SATV), Shogakukuan, Toho Company, TV Asahi, Tsutaya Group, and Yahoo Japan INDEX

A Bunka cho (Japan’s Agency for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Cultural Affairs) , 145 Sciences , 159 bunraku , 149 , 213 Akira , 15 , 41 , 112 burakumin , 160 All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW) , 124 , 196 American western , 72 C Anderson, Joseph L. , 7 , 49 Cannes (fi lm festival) , 95 , 136 , 171 anime , 11 , 37 chanbara eiga , 179 Appadurai, Arjun , 28 City of Lost Souls , 69 art cinema , 136 Cool Japan , 11 , 39 , 84 , 126 , 185 Asano, Tadanobu , 25 , 197 coproduction , 188 , 209 Asia Extreme , 69 , 107 cult cinema , 64 Audition , 69 , 104 cultural authenticity , 184 cultural concealment , 3 , 40 , 66 , 114 , 209 B cultural hybridism , 67 Barthes, Roland , 118 cultural hybridity , 54 , 67 Baudrillard, Jean , 207 cultural performance , 6 , 172 , 203 Befu, Harumi , 75 Berlin (fi lm festival) , 136 , 171 Blues Harp , 69 D Brother , 152 , 189 Davis, Darrell William , 151 Dead or Alive , 69

Departures , 17 , 136 I Django , 70 Ichi the Killer , 69 , 104 Dolls , 17 , 136 , 213 Ichise, Takashige , 127 Dragnet Girl , 54 iitoko dori , 67 Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) , 124 E Iwabuchi, Koichi, 4 , 33 , 65 , 205 Eel , The , 142 English language , 64 ethnicity , 64 J extreme cinema , 10 , 63 , Japan Association for the International 104 Promotion of Moving Images (UNIJAPAN) , 12 , 144 Japan National Tourist Organization F (JNTO) , 186 fi lm festivals , 135 Japan External Trade Organization Fireworks , 147 (JETRO) , 12 , 42 , 103 , 144 A Fistful of Dollars , 70 Japanese computer games , 35 For a Few Dollars More , 73 Japanese language , 78 J Horror , 11 , 101 J Horror Theatre , 127 G jidaigeki , 140 Gerow, Aaron , 49 Ju-on , 120 Ghost in the Shell , 15 , 43 , 101 global city , 116 globalization, 4 , 80 , 116 , 206 K glocalization , 37 , 205 Kagemusha , 179 Grudge , The , 120 kanshi , 180 Keoma , 73 Kill Bill , 14 , 172 H Kitano, Takeshi , 17 , 136 Hantke, Steffen , 109 Ko, Mika , 4 , 37 , 65 , 205 HanWay Films , 191 kokusaika , 38 , 66 , 205 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai , Koolhaas, Rem , 116 179 Kurosawa, Akira , 7 , 51 , 138 Heidi , a Girl of the Alps , 41 Kurosawa, Kiyoshi , 17 , 63 , 102 Higson, Andrew , 47 hikikomori , 113 Hokusai, Katsushika , 71 L Hollywood remakes , 102 Lady Snowblood , 179 hyperglobalization , 29 Last Samurai , The , 14 , 122 , 172 INDEX 223

Leone, Sergio , 71 P Ley Lines , 70 Phillips, Alastair , 6 Locarno (fi lm festival) , 156 Pulse , 17 , 44 , 102 , 204

M R Martin-Jones, David , 27 Ran , 179 Masters of Horror , 82 Rashomon , 138 , 171 McDonaldization , 208 Richie, Donald , 7 , 49 Media Blasters , 102 , 213 Ring , 120 media horror , 107 Ring , The , 120 Meiji period , 49 , 175 Ritzer, George , 29 , 208 Miike, Takashi , 16 , 63 , 172 Robertson, Roland , 34 , 205 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) , 125 , 145 Mongol , 25 , 197 S Mount Fuji , 72 Said, Edward , 213 mukokuseki , 36 , 66 , 101 , 205 samurai , 171 San Diego Comic-Con International , 95 N Sanada, Hiroyuki , 197 Nagata, Masaichi , 140 Schrader, Paul , 7 , 50 Nakata, Hideo , 128 Schrader, Paul , 52 Nakazawa, Toshiaki , 85 , 189 Scottish cinema , 27 national cinema , 1 , 24 , 65 , 138 Sedic International , 85 , 191 national identity , 3 , 24 , 65 , 152 , 179 seppuku , 180 nihonjinron , 4 , 50 , 75 Seven Samurai , 174 Nintendo , 35 Shinjuku Triad Society , 69 Nobunaga, Oda , 181 Shogun , 172 nokanshi , 160 , 213 soft power , 208 Nye, Joseph , 208 Sony , 31 spaghetti western , 72 Standish, Isolde , 210 O Stringer, Julian , 6 One Missed Call , 120 Studio Ghibli , 41 onyrou , 107 suicide , 110 , 180 orientalism , 165 , 212 Suicide Circle , 113 Ozu, Yasujiro , 8 , 48–56 Sukiyaki Western Django , 3 , 48 , 64 , 101 , 204 224 INDEX

Support Program for Participation at Twilight Samurai , The , 177 Film Festivals , 145

V T Venice (fi lm festival) , 86 , 136 , 171 Takita, Yojiro , 17 , 136 Tarantino, Quentin , 71 Tartan Films , 11 , 103 , 213 W Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer , 44 , 88 , 105 Wolverine , The , 14 , 122 , 172 Tetsuo: The Bullet Man , 16 , 101 , 204 Tetsuo: The Iron Man , 44 , 88 , 105 Tezuka, Yoshiharu , 10 , 24 Y Thomas, Jeremy , 189 yakuza , 63 , 149 Three…Extremes , 82 Yojimbo , 71 , 174 13 Assassins , 18 , 213 Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro , 7 , 26 Toei Kyoto Studio Park , 186 yurei , 107 Tokugawa//Edo period , 174 Tokugawa/Edo period , 49 Tokyo , 114–116 Z Tokyo Sonata , 188 Zatoichi , 147 , 173 Tokyo! , 25 , 188 Zen , 8 , 52 , 114 Tsukamoto, Shinya , 16 , 63