Online Criticism
(Organized by author. Writing on the research end of the spectrum is indicated with an asterisk (*). Browsers without Japanese capability will read Japanese-only articles as garbage).
*Fujii Jinshi, $@!V2H$+$iDq93$X(!(!@.@%L&4nCK$N!X=w@-1G2h(J $@!Y!W(J $@!!(J
Gerow, Aaron, Film Reviews on Kinema Club
*--- "Swarming Ants and Elusive Villans: Zigomar and the Problem of Cinema in 1910s Japan"
Goto Taro, "Mr. Goto Goes on Location of Oshima's New Film"
*Hase Masato,$@!V%j%e%_%(!<%k7;Do$N%"%k%1%*%m%8!$@!!(J
Ichikawa Jun interview (by Mark Schilling)
Iimura Takahiko, "On 'Reflected Cinema'"
*Itakura Fumiaki,$@!V!X0KF#OC=Q!Y$H$O$J$K$+(J---$@0KF#BgJeO@=x@b!W(J$@!!(J
Kamei Fumio after-film discussion (by Makino Mamoru; English, Japanese)
Kato Mikiro, *"The Western: The Neutral Zone Between Wilderness and Civilization"
*--- "Mizoguchi Film of Rumor, Production and Emotional Register"
*--- "A History of Movie Theaters and Audiences in Postwar Kyoto, the Capital of Japanese Cinema"
Komatsu Hiroshi, "Questions Regarding the Genesis of Nonfiction Film" (English, Japanese)
Kogawa Tetsuo, *"Adorno's Strategy of 'Hibernation'"
*--- Beyond Electronic Individualism
*--- "Japan as a Manipulated Society
*--- "New Trends in Japanese Popular Culture"
*---"Toward a Reality of "Reference": The Image and the Era of Virtual Reality" (English, Japanese)
Kudo Mitsuro interview (by Aaron Gerow and Monma Takashi; English, Japanese)
*Lee Young-Il, "The Establishment of a National Cinema Under Colonialism: The History of Early Korean Cinema"
Loeffler, Carl Eugene, "I am Not Taka Iimura"
*MacDonald, Scott, "The Films of Takahiko Iimura" (Excerpt)
Matsumoto Toshio interview (by Aaron Gerow; English, Japanese)
Mekas, Jonas, "I saw my first Iimura film in 1964...,"
*Nornes, Abˇ Mark, "P$@QS(Ju R$@[U(Ja/Paul Rotha and the Politics of Translation"
---"From Copy Machine to Computers: Collaboration and Kinema Club"
*Nornes, Abˇ Mark and Yeh Yueh-yu, "Narrating National Sadness" (on Ozu and Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Noto Setsuo and Komori Shizuo interview about the prewar proletarian film movement (by Makino Mamoru and Aaron Gerow; English, Japanese)
Oki Hiroyuki interview (English, Japanese)
Sato Tadao, "An Introduction to Early Japanese Cinema"
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Schilling, Mark, "Gamera 3"
*---"Godzilla"
Tamura Masaki interview (by Kanai Katsu; English, Japanese)
Tanaka Noboru interview (by Toki Akihiro)
Terada Torahiko, $@!X1G2h;~Be!Y(J
Toki Akihiro, *$@!V2#ED>&2q?@@t1q8=A|=j$O$I$3$K$"$C$?$+(J ----$@5~ET1G2h;K8&5f=x@b#2!W(J$@!!(J
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*Toki Akihiro and Mizuguchi Kaoru, "A History of Early Cinema in Kyoto, Japan (1896-1912) Cinematographe and Inabata Katsutaro"
Tsuchimoto Noriaki interview (by Aaron Gerow; English, Japanese)
*Julie Turnock, "The Singing Samurai: George Lucas and SMAP"
*Ueno Toshiya, "Japanimation and Techno-Orientalism" (English, Japanese)