| Cinema (General) |
| Administration
Commission of Motion Picture Code of Ethics (Eirin) |
(in Japanese & English) "an
independent voluntary self-regulating commission established
by the Japanese movie industry," responsible for
rating suitability of films for minors: rating system & practice;
short history of censorship in Japan; film industry statistics |
| Asian
Film Connections: Japan |
General introduction; feature films & awarded
films since 1998; highlighted films with film stills & video
clips; highlighted directors; educational curriculum |
| Cinemaya Highlighted
Articles: Japan |
Selections from Cinemaya, The
Asian Film Quarterly |
| Early
Japanese Cinema |
Essay by Sato Tadao for the 2nd
Pusan International film festival (Screening the
Past, Issue 7, July 1999) |
| Forgotten
Fragments: An Introduction to Silent Japanese Cinema |
Jasper Sharp & Mike Arnold's
account with interview of Midori Sawato, leading benshi or
silent film narrator |
| Japan
Film's Throne of Blood |
Growth of "the worldwide audience
for the darker, violent Japanese films" such as
those directed by Takashi Miike & Kiyoshi Kurosawa
(BBC News, Feb. 25, 2004) |
| Japanese
Cinema |
Articles in Bright Lights Film
Journal |
| Japanese
Cinema at Melbourne International Film Festival 2000 |
Freda Freiberg 's review of 14 features
(including a Suzuki Seijun retrospective) in Intersections (Issue
4, Sept., 2000) |
| Japanese
Horror Movies Database |
Title, personal & keyword indices;
news; reference books |
| Kinema Club |
Bibliographies & reviews
of Japanese films, searchable database, teaching tools |
| Lisa's
Japanese Movie Listing |
Impressions of various movies by
members of the Feudal Japan SIG, supplemented by other
sources |
| Masterpieces
of Silent Japanese Cinema |
Donato Totaro's review of the titled
DVD-Rom supervised by historian/critic Sato Tadao (Offscreen ,
Dec. 2001) |
 Midnight
Eye |
"The latest & best in
Japanese Cinema": reviews; interviews; feature;
calendar |
| Midnight
Eye interview: Donald Richie |
Richie on "his relationship
with the director [Ozu], and his broader life in Japan
and its colourful arts scene over the past few decades" (Dec.
2003) |
| Reviews of Japanese
Films |
Aaron Gerow's reviews & articles
on recent Japanese films for The Daily Yomiuri |
| Throw
Away Your Books: Japanese Cinema |
Bill Mousoulis' "tribute to
the many glorious Japanese films that have been made
over the years" (Senses of Cinema, Issue
No. 7, June 2000) |
| Udine
Far East Film Festival 2004 Program Notes: Japan |
Mark Schilling's Old
Styles, New Films: Japanese Films in 2003, Japan's
Real Thing: Ichikawa Jun, & interview with Ichikawa
Jun & Kameyama
Chihiro |
| Violence,
East and West: The Last Samurai |
Alain Silver's "exploration
of the samurai genre and its contemporary reworkings" in Senses
of Cinema (Issue No. 30, Jan.-Mar. 2004) |
| Writing,
Film, & Japan: An Expatriate's View - Conversation
with Donald Richie |
Interview with the American expatriate
who has written extensively on Japan, particularly its
cinema (Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley,
Conversations with History series, 2001) |
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