Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema

Japanese cinema is one of the world's great cinemas, it was initially introduced through a handful of extraordinary works in the postwar period by visionary filmmakers like Mizoguchi Kenji and Kurosawa Akira.


Japanese Cinema has an extremely rich tradition stretching all the way back to the late 19th century, as well as a first golden age during the 1930s. The first edition of Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, written by Japanese film specialist Jasper Sharp, covered a great deal of ...