Thanks to directors such as Kitano, Miike and Miyazaki, Japanese cinema has recently undergone something of a resurgence. This title profiles the work of these

The cinema of Japan predates that of Russia, China, and India, and it has been able to sustain itself without outside assistance for over a century. Japanese ci

"In this volume, expert Tom Mes takes us through the extraordinary career of this Japanese actess, whose commanding screen presence and piercing gaze defined an

An encyclopedia of Japanese animation and comics made since 1917.

Takes the reader on a wild joy ride deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the weird and wonderful world of the c