The midnight eye guide to Japanese film : Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp ; foreword by Hideo Nakata

Author(s): Sharp, Jasper | Mes, Tom

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Main Title
The midnight eye guide to Japanese film
Author(s)
Mes, Tom
Sharp, Jasper
Publisher
Berkeley, CA. : Stone Bridge Press, 2005
Collation
xiv, 365 pages : illustrations
23 cm
ISBN
9781880656891
Dewey Class
791.952
Contents
Foreword / 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.
Language
English
Subject
Motion pictures -- Japan
BRN
3405

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