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JPNS5004 Contemporary Japanese cinema View Online (Semester 1)

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Films on this module (17 items)

Throne of Blood (1957) - , Wednesday, 12 Aug 2015 Audio-visual document | View online via BoB

Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, 2003 Audio-visual document | DVD

Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa, 2001 Audio-visual document | DVD

The Twilight (2002) - , Saturday, 4 Apr 2009 Audio-visual document | View online via BoB

The twilight samurai - Yo ̄ ji Yamada, 2004 Audio-visual document | DVD

Tokyo story - Yasujiro ̄ Ozu, 2004 Audio-visual document | DVD

Tokyo story - Yasujiro ̄ Ozu, 1953 Audio-visual document | DVD

Nobody Knows (2004) - Hirokazu Kore-eda, Wednesday, 1 Apr 2009 Audio-visual document | View online via BoB

Nobody knows - Hirokazu Koreeda, 2007 Audio-visual document | DVD

Nobody knows - Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004 Audio-visual document | DVD

Pulse - , 2006

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Audio-visual document | DVD

Hana-bi - , 2001 Audio-visual document | DVD

The most terrible time in my life - Kaizo Hayashi, 2004 Audio-visual document | DVD

A snake of June - , 2003 Audio-visual document | DVD

Hush! - Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2003 Audio-visual document | DVD

Hush! - Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2001 Audio-visual document | DVD

Love letter - , 2005 Audio-visual document | DVD

Indicative Reading List (41 items)

The Japanese : art and industry - Joseph L. Anderson, Donald Richie, c1982 Book

Introduction to Japanese - Colette Balmain, c2008 Book

The cinema of Japan & Korea - Justin Bowyer, 2004 Book

To the distant observer: form and meaning in the Japanese cinema - Noe ̈ l Burch, Annette Michelson, 1979 Book

The flash of capital: film and geopolitics in Japan - Eric M. Cazdyn, c2002 Book

Outlaw masters of Japanese film - Chris D., 2005 Book

Picturing Japaneseness: monumental style, national identity, Japanese film - Darrell William Davis, c1996 Book

Eros plus massacre: an introduction to the Japanese new wave cinema - David Desser, c1988 Book

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Ozu's Tokyo story - Desser, David, c1997 Book

Cinematic landscapes: observations on the visual arts and and Japan - Linda C. Ehrlich, David Desser, 1994 Book

The of Kore-Eda Hirokazu: an elemental cinema - Linda C. Ehrlich, ©2019 Book

Kitano Takeshi - Aaron Andrew Gerow, 2007 Book

Akira Kurosawa and intertextual cinema - James Goodwin, c1994 Book

Mr. Smith goes to Tokyo: Japanese cinema under the American Occupation, 1945-1952 - Kyoko Hirano, 1992 Book

The crisis of identity in contemporary Japanese film: personal, cultural, national - Timothy Iles, 2008 Book

Japanese cinema and otherness: nationalism, multiculturalism and the problem of Japaneseness - Mika Ko, 2010 Book

Japanese classical theater in films - Keiko I. McDonald, c1994 Book

From book to screen: modern Japanese literature in film - Keiko I. McDonald, c2000 Book

Reading a Japanese film: cinema in context - Keiko I. McDonald, c2006 Book

Japanese horror cinema - Jay McRoy, 2005 Book

Nightmare Japan: contemporary cinema - McRoy, Jay, 2008 Book

The waves at Genji's door: Japan through its cinema - Joan Mellen, c1976 Book

The Midnight Eye guide to new Japanese film - Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, ©2005 Book

Agitator: the cinema of - Tom Mes, 2006 Book

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Iron man: the cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto - Tom Mes, 2005 Book

Reframing Japanese cinema: authorship, genre, history - Arthur Nolletti, David Desser, c1992 Book

Japanese cinema: texts and contexts - Alastair Phillips, Julian Stringer, 2007 Book

The warrior's camera: the cinema of Akira Kurosawa - Stephen Prince, c1991 Book

The films of Akira Kurosawa - Donald Richie, Joan Mellen, 1998 Book

A hundred years of Japanese film: a concise history, with a selective guide to DVDs and videos - Donald Richie, Paul Schrader, 2005 Book

Contemporary Japanese film - Mark Schilling, 1999 Book

The yakuza movie book: a guide to Japanese gangster films - Mark Schilling, 2003 Book

Behind the pink curtain: the complete history of Japanese sex cinema - Jasper Sharp, 2008 Book

The samurai film - Alain Silver, 2005 Book

Myth and masculinity in the Japanese cinema: towards a political reading of the "tragic hero" - Isolde Standish, 2000 Book

A new history of Japanese cinema: a century of narrative film - Isolde Standish, 2005 Book

The Japanese period film: a critical analysis - Sybil Anne Thornton, c2008 Book

Japanese cinema in the digital age - Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, c2012 Book

Word and image in Japanese cinema - Dennis C. Washburn, Carole Cavanaugh, 2001 Book

Ozu's anti-cinema - Yoshishige Yoshida, 2003 Book

Kurosawa: film studies and Japanese cinema - Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, 2000

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Topics for study (22 items) The following topics will be studied over the course of ten weeks of the course (Week 11 consists of an in-class test). The film used to contextualise the theme for study each week is listed below

Week 1: Introduction to Japanese Cinema (1 items)

Japanese cinema: texts and contexts - Alastair Phillips, Julian Stringer, c2007 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the Introduction

Week 2: Akira Kurosawa and the Japanese Period Film (3 items)

Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, 2003 Audio-visual document

Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa, 2001 Audio-visual document

Kurosawa: film studies and Japanese cinema - Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, 2000 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter 'Throne of blood'

Week 3: The Modern Japanese Period Film (1 items)

The twilight samurai - Yo ̄ ji Yamada, 2004 Audio-visual document

Week 4: Yasujiro Ozu and the Film of Contemporary Life (2 items)

Tokyo story - Yasujiro ̄ Ozu, 2004 Audio-visual document

Tokyo story - Yasujiro ̄ Ozu, 1953 Audio-visual document

Week 5: Modern Developments in the Home Drama (3 items)

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Nobody knows - Hirokazu Koreeda, 2007 Audio-visual document

Nobody knows - Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004 Audio-visual document

The Midnight Eye guide to new Japanese film - Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, 2005 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter 'Hirokazu Kore-eda'

Week 6: Tutorials

Week 7: Dark Future – The Japanese Horror Film (2 items)

Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2006 Audio-visual document

Japanese horror cinema - Jay McRoy, c2005 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the Introduction

Week 8: The Japanese Gangster Film (2 items)

Hana-bi - Takeshi Kitano, 2001 Audio-visual document

Kitano Takeshi - Aaron Andrew Gerow, 2007 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter 'Hana-Bi'

Week 9: Japan and the Near Abroad: Asian Issues (2 items)

The most terrible time in my life - Kaizo Hayashi, 2004 Audio-visual document

East Asian cinemas: exploring transnational connections on film - Leon Hunt, Wing-Fai Leung, 2008 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter Wing-Fai, Leung 'Transnational Noir: style and substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The Most Terrible Time in My Life'

Week 10: Sexuality and the Japanese Cinema (2 items)

A snake of June - Shinya Tsukamoto, 2003 Audio-visual document

The Midnight Eye guide to new Japanese film - Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, ©2005 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter 'Shinya Tsukamoto'

Week 11: Romance and Gender in Modern Japanese Film (4 items)

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Hush! - Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2003 Audio-visual document

Hush! - Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2001 Audio-visual document

Love letter - Shunji Iwai, 2005 Audio-visual document

Contemporary Japanese film - Mark Schilling, 1999 Book | Follow the link to access a scan of the chapter 'Shunji Iwai'

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