A critical introduction the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes.

What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu’s sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota conside...(展开全部)

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira K...(展开全部)

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging publication of its kind to date. Ranging from renowned directors such as Akira K...(展开全部)

作者 四方田犬彦 (1953- ) ，电影研究者、杂文与随笔作者、诗人。东京大学宗教学专业毕业，后于东大研究生院专攻比较文学。曾任明治学院大学教授，长期讲授电影学课程。目前潜心从事研究与写作。曾任哥伦比亚大学、特拉维夫大学、博洛尼亚大学客座教授、客座研究员。研究与批评涉猎领 域广泛，对文学、电影、漫画、戏剧、美食等文化现象长期关注，笔耕不辍。获伊藤整文学奖、桑原武夫学艺奖、艺术选奖（文部科学大臣奖）等多个奖项。著作140余部，已出版中文译著有：《日本电影100年》（三联书店，2006）、《创新激情：一九八〇年以后的日本电影》（中国电影出版社，2006）、《论可爱》（山东人民出版社，2011）、《日本电影与战后神话》（南京大学出版社，2011）等。 译者 王众一 (1963- )，吉林大学研究生院外语系毕业，获硕士学位。现任日文月刊《人民中国》总编辑。...(展开全部)

In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion became naturalized as the representation of beauty in Japanese films, situating Japanes...(展开全部)