Table of Contents

Introduction by the Editor 

Films of the Year 
Hard Romanticker
Himizu 
Kotoko 
A Letter To Momo 
No Man's Zone 

Festival Focus 
Tokyo Filmex and the Problem of the Niche

Industry Spotlight 
Interview with Susumu Hani

Directors 
Shinji Aoyama 
Kinji Fukasaku 
Kazuo Hara 
Yasuharu Hasebe 
Eikoh Hosoe
Jun Ichikawa 
Kon Ichikawa 
Shohei Imamura 
Katsuhito Ishii 
Teruo Ishii 
Shunji Iwai
Akio Jissoji 
Ryuhei Kitamura
Takeshi Kitano 
Masaki Kobayashi
Masaru Konuma
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Akira Kurosawa
Yasuzo Masumura 
Hitoshi Matsumoto 
Takashi Miike 
Kenji Misumi 
Goro Miyazaki 
Hayao Miyazaki 
Kenji Mizoguchi 
Yoshimitsu Morita 
Hideo Nakata 
Mamoru Oshii 
Nagisa Oshima 
Yasujiro Ozu 
Rintaro 
Kaneto Shindo 
Makoto Shinkai 
Masahiro Shinoda
Sion Sono 
Seijun Suzuki 
Isao Takahata 
Yuki Tanada
Hiroshi Teshigahara 
Yutaka Tsuchiya 
Shin’ya Tsukamoto 
Koji Wakamatsu
Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Takahisa Zeze 

About the Author

John Berra is a lecturer in Film and Language Studies at Renmin University of China. He is the author of Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production (2008); editor of the Directory of World Cinema: American Independent volumes 1, 2 and 3; editor of the Directory of World Cinema:Japan volumes 1, 2 and 3; co-editor of World Film Locations: Beijing (2012) and World Film Locations: Shanghai (2014); and co-editor of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. He has also contributed to Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema (2014).

Reviews

'This is certainly a book that film students, scholars and Japanese film enthusiasts will enjoy and benefit from having it in their collection.'
*Agne Serpytyte, The Asian Cinema Blog*