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	Japanese Cinema to 1960 \| GreenCine
		Japan has long had one of the most beautiful cinemas in the world, with masterpieces extant from its prolonged silent era, from the militarist period of the late 1930s and early 1940s, through the postwar era of American occupation and economic resurgence.
		Early Japanese cinema is hard to find, little of it surviving the firebombs of the Pacific War, and a small portion is presently available on DVD.
		The first "realist" (in the western sense) Japanese film is considered to be the still-extant Souls on the Road (Minoru Mirata, 1921), a loose adaptation of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths (which Kurosawa himself would film in 1957).
	www.greencine.com /central/guide/japanesecinema (787 words)

	Cinema of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Japanese performer to appear in a film professionally was the dancer/actress Tokuko Nagai Takagi, who appeared in four shorts for the American-based Thanhouser Company between 1911 and 1914 (source).
		Most Japanese cinema theatres at the time employed benshi, narrators whose dramatic readings accompanied the film and its musical score which, like in the West, was often performed live.
		The 1950s were the zenith of Japanese cinema, and three of its films (Rashōmon, The Seven Samurai, and Tokyo Story) made the Sight and Sound's 2002 Critics and Directors Poll for the best films of all time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinema_of_Japan (1310 words)

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		Japanese cinema developed in a manner that kept it 10 years behind the films of the west.
		Japanese film companies are run like "film families" where the director is the paternal head of the organization.
		Japanese cinema has produced an incrdible wide variety films in terms of its subject matter,so it is hard to characterize the films in a general way.
	members.tripod.com /dennismichaeliannuzz/JapanCinema.html (981 words)

	Throw Away Your Books: Japanese Cinema
		And there seems to be great Japanese films from every decade, not only from one or two of them (whereas Italian cinema, for example, deteriorated in the '80s and '90s).
		But it was the "New Wave" who heralded in the modern Japanese cinema, in the late '60s, with Nagisa Oshima at the forefront.
		Japanese cinema is well and truly alive at the moment.
	www.innersense.com.au /productions/writings/japanese.html (1080 words)

	Historical Poetics, Malaysian Cinema, and the Japanese Occupation
		Historical poetics of cinema is an approach to film study introduced by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson of the University of Wisconsin, and has its roots in the work of the Russian Formalist critics of both literature and film.
		Because Japanese films were the only ones available to the Malaysians, they patronized them and, apparently, appreciated and enjoyed them, at the same time realizing that these films were being used for purposes of propaganda.
		Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie made this point in their seminal text on Japanese cinema: "[T]he Japanese were responsible for accelerating the rise of the Asian film industry as a whole, and without Japan's occupation of these countries the production level would not be as high as it is now.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /white962.htm (5932 words)

	Intersections: Japanese Cinema at Melbourne International Film Festival 2000">
		The pliable Japanese girl is a trap, and a lie; she masks a grotesque femme fatale.
		Unlike many Japanese anime films, Ghost in the Shell included, this film is clearly located in a Japanese setting with specific reference to the political situation in a precise period of Japanese history, although it employs a European folktale as a central narrative device.
		Overall, this batch of recent films suggests that the Japanese cinema is enjoying a spurt of creative energy but one underscored by disturbing undercurrents and a brooding mood of retrospection.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /intersections/issue4/freda.html (1513 words)

	Books Around : Japanese Film, Vol. 1. by Olaf Möller
		But the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema is a scholarly opus while The Dorama Encyclopedia never transcends its fan roots: It features a very basic introduction, an okay index, ultra-basic credits, and agreeable summaries—but rarely any in-depth discussions (there’s the odd reference to anime, another of Clements’ major fields of interest).
		Given the since-Kitano interest in Japanese gangster films, it was just a matter of time before somebody would publish a more extensive study on the subject, and it’s a good thing that a serious and thoughtful journalist like Mark Schilling did.
		That said, Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike is a sturdy, very well researched, and solidly argued auteurist study that in some respects dares to counter its designated audience’s expectations—Mes forcefully stresses Miike’s humanist side while most others try to sell him as this ultra-nihilistic weirdo.
	www.cinema-scope.com /cs19/col_moller_booksaround.htm (1409 words)

	Midnight Eye feature: Forgotten Fragments: An Introduction to Japanese Silent Cinema
		With one of the lowest survival rates in the world, the embryonic development of the nation's cinema is a difficult area to chart and many important works of this period including early films by important directors including Daisuke Itoh, Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi are now unfortunately considered to be irretrievably lost.
		Zigomar was about a thief, and Japanese children would watch that and want to imitate him, playing "thief." It was said that this had a negative effect on their education.
		Japanese films, with the influence from kabuki and shimpa and the kowairo voice acting, were branded as being old-fashioned.
	www.midnighteye.com /features/silentfilm_pt2.shtml (4895 words)

	Japanese Web Resources - Web Links
		Japanese woodblock prints: in addition to seeing these beautiful works of art this site offers links to the museums where they are displayed.
		Japanese language learning tools on the Web: a collection of Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks that are of use to teachers and students of Japanese.
		Japanese Writing Tutor: "hone your writing skills, making your katakana, hiragana, and kanji more legible." In addition to an extensive writing tutor, learn about the different character sets, when and how they are used, and more.
	college.hmco.com /languages/japanese/resources/students/links (766 words)

	UH Press: Books and Journals published by the University of Hawaii Press
		Keiko McDonald is an important scholar and critic of Japanese cinema with a writing style that is engaging, insightful, and, at the same time, highly accessible.
		Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of some of the most critically acclaimed and thoroughly entertaining films ever made.
		Keiko I. McDonald is professor of Japanese cinema and literature at the University of Pittsburgh.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /cart/shopcore/?db_name=uhpress&page=shop/flypage&product_id=3941&category_id=b3e6237d1b1b3b8594488ed1c40d0dfb&PHPSESSID=c5dee798f35a7047128b3b1423c5e9e5 (303 words)

	University of Michigan \| Film & Video Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		March 1999 Film and Video Studies hosted a workshop entitled “Japanese Cinema Studies in the Rear View Mirror: Re-Viewing the Discipline.” It was organized by faculty member Abé Markus Nornes, along with Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto of the University of Iowa.
		Considering the past, present and future of “Japanese cinema studies,” the workshop was the culmination of several years of discussion about the state of Japanese cinema studies in the United States.
		While the scholars who established the field came from film studies proper or from without academia, there are now people approaching Japanese cinema from a variety of disciplines including history, literature, area studies, anthropology, and comparative literature.
	www.umich.edu /~umfvpgm/news/japanese-cinema-studies.html (168 words)

	Early Japanese cinema
		The history of Japanese Cinema begins with the premiere of Edison's Kinetoscope in 1886.
		Among the troupes he cast in his films was the Onoe Matsunosuke troupe, which eventually launched Shojo's career as a famous producer, and theirs as the first "film stars" in the history of Japanese Cinema, as their films were consistently big hits with audiences.
		In the early stages of Japanese Cinema, many documentary films or news reels including scenes of the city, dancing geishas, Kabuki, Sumo, royal or celebrity funerals, the Giwadam incident, and the Russia-Japan War, were produced.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/reruns/rr0499/PUerr6.htm (1771 words)

	OUTPOST MAGAZINE \| Archive \|\| Issue 1 - Japanese Cinema in the 90's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Shinobu Yaguchi’s Down the Drain, a grandmother dies, the family funeral is ruined and the parents are hospitalized all as a result of a schoolgirl’s fraudulent use of her friend’s transit pass.
		- This jadedness is in part due to the fact that many Japanese have little faith in the governments they elect, and has expressed a growing unease with the rigidness of their lives.
		"Independent Japanese filmmakers want to show audiences they are wrong." The independent films coming out of Japan, with their generally off-beat subject matter and sometimes nihilistic tone, seem calculated to undermine the maudlin soap operas the majority of the nation’s viewers so enjoy.
	www.outpostmagazine.com /archives/op01/japanese_cinema.html (1357 words)

	Japanese Cinema - Cinema.3Yen.com - Cinema in Japan
		One of the most celebrated japanese director in recent years, Imamura Shohei has died on May 30th.
		I like to think that this modest blog inspired japanese producers to revive Gamera, since Gamera was the subject of the first post of the site, proving the renewing interest in that magnificent beast.
		Kumashiro was from the generation of the japanese new wave and most of his movies were set in the Roman Porno genre of the 70’s.
	cinema.3yen.com (2097 words)

	Japanese Cinema Now - Events - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
		It is widely believed that Japanese cinema was reborn in the early 1990s after more than a decade of hiatus.
		Yet, such understanding of contemporary Japanese cinema misses a fundamental historical break by directly linking the Japanese cinema of the 1990s and after to what used to be called Japanese cinema.
		Japanese cinema is now in a post-national state, consisting of complex and contradictory trends and developments which do not necessarily form a coherent image of Japan, traditional or otherwise.
	ieas.berkeley.edu /events/2004.09.18.html (254 words)

	[KFCC] Eros in Hell Book Review
		Published in 1998, "Eros in Hell" explores the underground world of Japanese cinema, from the beginning of the 60's to the end of the 90's.
		The strongest point of this book is his historical aspect, with just enough details on the history of underground Japanese cinema and their director; you don't have to know Japanese culture a lot to follow the book.
		But if you are new to Japanese cinema and want to explore this lesser known type of films, "Eros in Hell" is definitely a good way start.
	www.kfccinema.com /features/articles/erosinhell/erosinhell.html (970 words)

	Category:Japanese culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese culture consists of the interaction between a strong original Jomon culture and subsequent influences from the rest of the world.
		Today, Japan is one of the world's largest exporters of popular culture.
		Japanese cartoons, comic books, fashion, films, literature, and music have gained popularity around the world, especially in the other countries of Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Japanese_culture (209 words)

	[KFCC] Japanese Book Review
		The content of these pages is copyright © 1999-2005 by "KFC Cinema" and may not be copied or reprinted without the written consent of the publisher.
		Sometimes there is not enough attention given to this aspect of cinema and some really beautiful art goes to waste.
		Japanese Movie Posters is a great read, you have page after page of beautiful movie posters.
	www.kfccinema.com /features/articles/ninjaposter/ninjaposter.html (527 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film & Media \| 2005 \| Early Autumn: Masterworks of Japanese Cinema from the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This lyrical depiction of a year in the life of a Japanese agricultural village is also a heartwarming story about a horse, lovingly raised by a young girl, who comes to be sold to the military.
		Among his many passengers: a group of poor country children who have never ridden in a cab before; a young runaway; a popular actress killing time until her next show; a couple celebrating their silver wedding anniversary; a carjacker; and a wife awaiting the return of her convict husband.
		According to legend, it was once customary for the young inhabitants of a remote Japanese village to escort those turning seventy years old to Mount Narayama to die, thus assuring the community’s continued economic stability.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2005/japanese_cinema.html (2729 words)

	Japanese cinema
		The Japanese reporter for the prestigious Screen International, Mark Schilling gets to see all the new films in advance, and brings not just a reviewer's critical eye, but a linguist's critical ear = his comments on translation and delivery add a whole new dimension lacking from writers who can't speak Japanese.
		Some of the background stories, such as the influence of the Middle Eastern carpet trade on the Japanese film business, are quite mind boggling, bu also bery interesting explanations for some of the strange behaviour of Japanese film producers.
		However the main difficulty with this book is that films are listed under the literal translation of their Japanese titles, so be prepared to examine your video cases to try and work out what title the film is listed under (a cross index of titles in English/ International release titles would be v.
	www.jahsonic.com /JapaneseCinema.html (1208 words)

	Masterpieces of Silent Japanese Cinema
		Intersecting across all sections of the DVD-ROM is the importance of the benshi in Japanese silent cinema.
		The benshi was an important component of silent Japanese cinema, in some cases achieving more popularity than the on-screen actors.
		He claims that the 4-5 years that Japanese cinema fell behind the US and other nations in the shift to sound allowed them to further the art of the moving camera.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/silent_japanese.html (1248 words)

	HON E203 24915 History of Japanese Cinema (EALC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Since the middle of the last century Japanese cinema has been recognized as a unique national cinema, a highly accomplished, artistically significant body of film with its own look and feel.
		The spectacular global success of Japanese animation (such as Spirited Away) or horror films (e.g., Ringu and its sequels) suggest that the simple characterization of Japanese film as “unique” may not be adequate.
		No prior knowledge of Japanese or Japanese culture is required—although a tolerance for fl-and-white films and subtitles is definitely a plus.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr06/hon/hon_e203_24915.html (321 words)

	Amazon.com: Japanese Cinema: An Introduction (Images of Asia): Books: Donald Richie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This brief and lively book covers the whole of Japanese film history, from the silent period to the present day.
		In it, Ritchie teaches as much about Japanese cultural obsessions as he does the cinema, showing how significantly the former influenced the unique power of the latter.
		Here is a candid and revealing view of the medium, written by the Japanese cinema's most important Western critic.
	www.amazon.com /Japanese-Cinema-Introduction-Images-Asia/dp/0195849507 (758 words)

	Japanese Cinema Now
		Her tug o’ war between redemption and self-destruction is presented in the poker-faced, long-take minimalism that’s as much a convention of Japanese art films as hyperactive editing is of American action films.
		The classic Japanese ghost story figure of a robed woman draped in long, raven hair is updated chillingly with grainy video.
		Even if you’re familiar with the work of this high priest of extreme cinema, you might not be prepared for his flabbergasting adaptation of the comic book by Hideo Yamamoto (also, oddly enough, the name of the movie’s unrelated but very gifted cinematographer).
	www.brns.com /welles/pages/welles2.html (1372 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| Brian Ruh \| From Here to Shinjuku \| America's Japanese Cinema: Appropriating Japan's Cachet of ...
		Cruise's Japanese foil, Ken Watanabe (probably best known to non-Japanese audiences for his portrayal of Gun in Juzo Itami's Tampopo), was far more convincing in his role as a renegade samurai, displaying excellent English-language acting chops.
		Japanese popular culture now exerts a significant economic (and, by extension, political) force on the world markets.
		While the amount of Japanese film available in the US is steadily increasing, more often than not it is given short shrift as we fall back upon our perception of Kurosawa as the standard bearer for Japanese cinema.
	www.popmatters.com /columns/ruh/040114.shtml (1403 words)

	Silent Era : DVD : Masterpieces of Japanese Silent Cinema (2000) DVD-ROM Review
		Japanese silent film production continued well into the 1930s because of the well-ensconced Benshi tradition of live narration of silent film action.
		Urban Connections, a Japanese publishing company, has released a DVD-ROM entitled Masterpieces of Japanese Silent Cinema that serves English-speaking readers as both an introduction and overview of the Japanese silent era cinema, and as a substantial database cataloguing 12,000 of the most significant films.
		Each clip is accompanied by music and narration in Japanese (subtitles in English) from both historical and modern Benshi, including Shisei Umemura, Shunsui Matsuda, Midori Sawato, Korakuten Nishimura, Goro Fukuchi, Koro Goto, Shiko Kunii and Ryokuson Kaneko.
	www.silentera.com /DVD/masterjapansilcineDVD.html (960 words)

	WATER BOYS Japanese Movie Review - J-Fan Cinema
		Just as I have seen in many Japanese dramas, the Japanese value of perseverance is a very strong moral in this movie.
		Perhaps it is exactly this Japanese emphasis on perseverance that made such a ridiculous story even possible.
		For a Japanese movie it certainly wouldn't be considered too low budget.
	www.j-fan.com /cinema/cinema.cgi?action=viewrev&selected=2 (1075 words)

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