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...Dennis Grafflin Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s . By Donald Kirihara . Wisconsin Studies in Film. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1992 . x, 187 pp. BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 455 nearly all of the legal...

...John Allyn Ugetsu: Kenji Mizoguchi, Director . Edited by Keiko I. McDonald . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1993 . vii, 176 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1025 1952 have had less impact on security policy than...

...J. L. Anderson Mizoguchi . By Keiko McDonald . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1984 . 187 pp. Illustrations, Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Filmography, Index. $16.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 620 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Golden Age...

... Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 621 film in spite of Mizoguchi but the incident harmed her directorial career and angered her mentors, Ozu and Naruse. Mizoguchi and his films about suffering women connect with current discussions about "women's directors" and women...

... that sphere of Japan's being that might be called Japan's soul" (p. 214). CAROLYN WHEELWRIGHT Yale University Mizoguchi. By KEIKO MCDONALD. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984. 187 pp. Illustrations, Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Filmography, Index. $16.95. Mizoguchi appears as the first Japanese...

...Yoko H. Shirai Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan . By Koji Mizoguchi . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . 200 pp. $80.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In this welcome addition to the growing body...

...: British Film Institute, 1999. 79 pp. $12.95 (paper). This booklet is devoted to Mizoguchi Kenji's Sambo Dayu (1954), also known as Sansho the Bailiff, one of the most internationally celebrated Japanese films. It belongs to BFI Film Classics, a series published by the British Film Institute intended...

... Mizoguchi, is titled "Ugetsu: Why Is It a Masterpiece?" She describes its initial reception, notes its unique blend of realism and the supernatural, and lists its major awards. Cited also are examples of Mizoguchi's long takes, moving camera, recurring themes of downtrodden women, and low-key photography...

... future, it seems more possible than two decades ago. If popular norms have served as the main check on such developments, would a shift in public mood bring rapid change? W. MILES FLETCHER III University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ugetsu: Kenji Mizoguchi, Director. Edited by KEIKO I. M C D O N A L...

.... By DUDLEY A N D R E W and CAROLE C A V A N A U G H . London: British Film Institute, 1999. 79 pp. $12.95 (paper). This booklet is devoted to Mizoguchi Kenji's Sambo Dayu (1954), also known as Sansho the Bailiff, one of the most internationally celebrated Japanese films. It belongs to BFI Film Classics...

...Ramon H. Myers Taiwan, Chôsen no keizai seichô—bukka tôkei o chûshin to shite . (Economic Growth of Taiwan and Korea: With Special Emphasis on Price Statistics). By Mizoguchi Toshiyuki . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1975 . 180 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 1200 Yen Copyright ©...

... of society. Following the concept of melodrama presented by the French literature scholar Peter Brooks in The Melodramatic Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976), Cavanaugh argues that Mizoguchi's film gives a highly emotional articulation to a craving for an unattainable transcendence after...

... on the economy of Mainland China. It consists of three essays: Professor Shigeru Ishikawa's "Investigation of the Official National-Income Statistics," Toshiyuki Mizoguchi's "Investigation of the Commodity Price-Index Data," and Tadao Yoshida's "The Population Structure." Ishikawa's is the major piece, being...

... on Mizoguchi Kenji, titled, of course, Mizoguchi (Boston: Twayne, 1984), but this newest addition to her opus deserves to change that. Reading a Japanese Film brings together careful analyses of sixteen films relatively that are easily available outside of Japan, ranging from the 1930s to the 1990s...

... Cinematheque, 2001. 445 pp. $29.95 (paper). James Quandt has given us another outstanding collection on a Japanese director, and like his others (the Imamura Shohei retrospective and the out-of-print Mizoguchi the Master), this volume on Ichikawa Kon is one to treasure. The collection is the fruit...

... and the out-of-print Mizoguchi the Master), this volume on Ichikawa Kon is one to treasure. The collection is the fruit of collaboration between Cinematheque Ontario, where Quandt is Senior Programmer, and the Japan Foundation a marriage made in heaven for devotees ofJapanese film. The Ontario Cinematheque...

... represents the Bureau's first publication on the economy of Mainland China. It consists of three essays: Professor Shigeru Ishikawa's "Investigation of the Official National-Income Statistics," Toshiyuki Mizoguchi's "Investigation of the Commodity Price-Index Data," and Tadao Yoshida's "The Population...

... drama. York University DIANA LARY Taiwan,Chosen no keizai seicho bukka tokei o chushin to shite (Economic Growth of Taiwan and Korea: With Special Emphasis on Price Statistics). BY MIZOGUCHI TOSHIYUKI. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1975. 180 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 1200 Yen Economic research...

... to be an extension of the Meiji tsuzukimono and serial novel into a new medium. This is followed by twelve case studies, beginning with Gosho Heinosuke's 1933 adaptation of Kawabata Yasunari's Izu Dancer. Subsequent chapters discuss Shimazu Yasujiro's The Story of Shunkin (1935, original by Tanizaki); Mizoguchi's...

... to be satisfied with a slower pace of improvement in their material welfare" and "limited opportunities to rise from their subordinate position in society" (p. 386). Mizoguchi Toshiyuki and Yamamoto Yuzo show that the colonial government commercialized and modernized agriculture in Taiwan but not in Korea, which...