PN1993.5.J3M47

Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-348) and index

Acknowledgements Foreword by Hideo Nakata Introduction 1. Seijun Suzuki - Kanto Wanderer - Gate of Flesh - Elegy to Violence - Branded to Kill - Story of Sorrow and Sadness - Pistol Opera 2. Shôhei Imamura - Intentions of Murder - A Man Vanishes - The Profound Desire of the Gods - Eijanaika - The Eel 3. Kinji Fukasaku - Black Lizard - Under the Flag of the Rising Sun - Battles without Honor and Humanity - Cops vs. Thugs - Virus - The Triple Cross - Battle Royale 4. Sôgo Ishii - Crazy Thunder Road - Burst City - August in the Water - Gojoe 5. Masato Harada - Kamikaze Taxi - Bounce KoGals 6. Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Sweet Home - Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself! series - Cure - Charisma - Pulse 7. Studio Ghibli (Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki) - The Adventures of Hols, Prince of the Sun - Grave of the Fireflies - Porco Rosso - Only Yesterday 8. Kaizô Hayashi - To Sleep So As to Dream - The Most Terrible Time in My Life 9. Shinya Tsukamoto - Tetsuo: The Iron Man - Tokyo Fist - Gemini - A Snake of June 10. Takeshi Kitano - Violent Cop - A Scene at the Sea - Sonatine - Getting Any? 11. Ryôsuke Hashiguchi - Like Grains of Sand - Hush! 12. Takashi Miike - The Bird People in China - Kishiwada Shônen Gurentai; Bôkyô - Ley Lines - Audition - Ichi the Killer 13. Makoto Shinozaki - Okaeri - Not Forgotten 14. Hirokazu Kore-eda - After Life 15. Shinji Aoyama - Two Punks - An Obsession - Shady Grove - Eureka 16. Naomi Kawase - Suzaku - Hotaru 17. Sabu - Dangan Runner - Monday - The Blessing Bell 18. Hideo Nakata - Ring - The Sleeping Bride - Chaos 19. Akihiko Shiota - Moonlight Whispers - Harmful Insect 20. The Other Players: - The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa) - Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita) - Fire Festival (Mitsuo Yanagimachi) - Tampopo (Jûzô Itami) - The Mystery of Rampo (Rintarô Mayuzumi, Kazuyoshi Okuyama) - Gonin (Takashi Ishii) - Love Letter (Shunji Iwai) - MARKS (Yôichi Sai) - Memories (Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, Katsuhiro Ôtomo) - Organ (Kei Fujiwara) - Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suô) - Kichiku (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri) - Onibi: The Fire Within (Rokurô Mochizuki) - Raigyo (Takahisa Zeze) - Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon) - Gamera 3; Revenge of Iris (Shûsuke Kaneko) - Gohatto (Nagisa Ôsukeshima) - The New God (Yutaka Tsuchiya) - Scoutman (Masato Ishioka) - Tokyo Trash Baby (Ryûichi Hiroki) - Uzumaki (Higuchinsky) - Avalon (Mamoru Oshii) - Bad Company (Tomoyuki Furumaya) - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Hironobu Sakaguchi) - Firefly Dreams (John Williams) - GO (Isao Yukisada) - Kazahana (Shinji Sômai) - A Tender Place (Shunichi Nagasaki) - Blue Spring (Toshiaki Toyoda) - Bokunchi; My House (Junji Sakamoto) Bibliography

An eye-opening portrait of a vibrant film culture, The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film is the most comprehensive study of the Japanese filmmaking scene yet written, featuring all-new material from the co-editors of the popular website MidnightEye.com. Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp explore the astounding resurgence of Japanese cinema, both live action and animated, profiling 19 contemporary Japanese filmmakers, from the well-known (Kitano, Miike, Miyazaki) to the up-and-coming (Naomi Kawase, Satoshi Kon, Shinya Tsukamoto) and reviewing 97 of their recent films. With 100+ images from behind and in front of the camera, this is a book any film lover will savor. Foreword by Hideo Nakata, director of Ringu. Tom Mes (in Paris) and Jasper Sharp (in Tokyo) co-edit Midnighteye.com, the premier English-language website on Japanese cinema.