Japanese Films: A Filmography and Commentary, 1921-1989

by Beverley Bare Buehrer

Japanese culture as seen in film is a world of arranged marriages and loyalty beyond death, a world where suicide is an heroic act. Or a world where life's sadness can be echoed in the falling petals of cherry blossoms. It is a world simultaneously exotic but also universal in appeal.

From Souls on the Road to Tampopo, this book is a film-by-film look at more than 80 of Japan's best and most important movies. The entries,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786473797
• ISBN13: 9780786473793
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher