Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- A Note on Japanese Name Order -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Transcendent Japan: Japanese Cinema, Sacred Space, and Gateways to Transcendence -- 2 Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away: Pilgrimage as Homecoming and Seeing Anew -- 3 Makoto Shinkai's your name: Celestial Destiny and Transcendent Love in the Space-Time of Disaster -- 4 Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Ran: Downward Transcendence and Nō Boundaries in a Wicked World
5 Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life and I Wish: Creating Space for Everyday Transcendence -- Concluding Science-Fiction Postscript: Cinema as -- Index
