Japanese Cinema - 9780415328470

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List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction ALASTAIR PHILLIPS AND JULIAN STRINGER 1. The Salary Man's Panic Time: Ozu Yasujiro's I Was Born, But\u2026 (1932) ALASTAIR PHILLIPS 2. All For Money: Mizoguchi Kenji's Osaka Elegy (1936) MORI TOSHIE 3. Turning Serious: Yamanaka Sadao's Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) FREDA FREIBERG 4. Country Retreat: Shimizu Hiroshi\u2019s Ornamental Hairpin (1941) ALEXANDER JACOBY 5. The Riddle of the Vase: Ozu Yasujiro's Late Spring (1949) ABE MARK NORNES 6. History Through Cinema: Mizoguchi Kenji's The Life of Oharu (1952) JOAN MELLEN 7. The Menace from the South Seas: Honda Ishiro's Godzilla (1954) YOMOTA INUHIKO 8. Seven Samurai and Six Women: Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai (1954) D. P. MARTINEZ 9. Women's Stories in Post-War Japan: Naruse Mikio's Late Chrysanthemums (1954) CATHERINE RUSSELL 10. A Cinematic Creation: Ichikawa Kon's Conflagration (1958) KEIKO I. MCDONALD 11. Modernization without Modernity: Masumura Yasuzo's Gs