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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) - Akira Kurosawa, 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 Samurai (2002) - Yoji Yamada, 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 - Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2006
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Audio-visual document | DVD
Hana-bi - Takeshi Kitano, 2001 Audio-visual document | DVD
The most terrible time in my life - Kaizo Hayashi, 2004 Audio-visual document | DVD
A snake of June - Shinya Tsukamoto, 2003 Audio-visual document | DVD
Hush! - Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2003 Audio-visual document | DVD
Hush! - Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2001 Audio-visual document | DVD
Love letter - Shunji Iwai, 2005 Audio-visual document | DVD
Indicative Reading List (41 items)
The Japanese film: art and industry - Joseph L. Anderson, Donald Richie, c1982 Book
Introduction to Japanese horror film - 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 cinema of China and Japan - Linda C. Ehrlich, David Desser, 1994 Book
The films 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 Japanese horror 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 Takashi Miike - 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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