Directory of World Cinema: Japan 3

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).

• Introduction by the Editor Films of the Year Hard RomantickerHimizu Kotoko A Letter To Momo No Man's Zone Festival Focus Tokyo Filmex and the Problem of the NicheIndustry Spotlight Interview with Susumu HaniDirectors 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 KobayashiMasaru KonumaHirokazu Kore-edaAkira KurosawaYasuzo 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 ShinodaSion Sono Seijun Suzuki Isao Takahata Yuki Tanada Hiroshi Teshigahara Yutaka Tsuchiya Shin’ya Tsukamoto Koji WakamatsuMitsuo YanagimachiTakahisa Zeze

'This is certainly a book that film students, scholars and Japanese film enthusiasts will enjoy and benefit from having it in their collection.'