Title Japanese cinema goes global : filmworkers' journeys / Yoshiharu Tezuka

Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2012] ©2012

Table of Contents
	Preface					vii
	Acknowledgements					xi
	Note on Romanization of Asian Names and Scripts					xiii
	Introduction					1
ch. One	Japanese National Identity and "Banal" Cosmopolitalization					9
	The Crisis of National Identity					9
	The Formation of Different Types of Cosmopolitan Subjectivity					13
ch. Two	Internationalization of Japanese Cinema -- How Japan Was Different from the West and above Asia before Globalization					25
	The Occupation, Japanese National Cinema and Industry					29
	A New Set of Lies -- Post-war National Subjectivity					35
	Legitimizing Cosmopolitanism and Self-Orientalism					40
	Technology and Japan's Oriental-Orientalism in Asia					51
	The Golden Age of the Hong Kong-Japanese Cinematic Interchange					60
	The Emergence of Resistance Cosmopolitanism					67
ch. Three	Globalization of Film Finance -- The Actually Existing Cosmopolitanisms of Japanese Film Producers					75
	Banal Cosmopolitanization and the Mini-Theatres					80
	Globalizing Japanese Cinema -- Reticent Legitimizing Cosmopolitanism					89
	The Precarious Life of a Japanese Resistance Cosmopolitan in Europe					97
	Japanese Alternative Cinema and Cosmopolitanism					103
ch. Four	Global America? -- American-Japanese Film Co-Productions from Shogun (1980) to The Grudge 2 (2006) via Lost in Translation (2003)					113
	The Production of Shogun (1980)					120
	The Japanese Line Producer of Shogun -- Hiroaki Fujii					123
	The Production of Lost in Translation (2003)					126
	The Japanese Line Producer of Lost in Translation -- Kiyoshi Inoue					129
	Comparing the Two Films and the Two Japanese Line Producers					132
	Remaking Global Hollywood -- Synopticon Control of Locals					135
ch. Five	Pan-Asian Cinema? -- The Last of Japan-Centred Regional Cosmopolitanism					145
	The Japan-Hong Kong Interaction since the Late 1980s					149
	Working In-between Japan and Hong Kong					154
	The Undercurrent of Japan-China Interaction					159
	Hybrid Regionalism Practised by East Asian Film Students					164
	Epilogue					171
	Notes					175
	List of Recorded Interviews					179
	References					181
	Index					197

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Description 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) Series TransAsia : screen cultures TransAsia--screen cultures. Contents Introduction -- ch. 1. Japanese national identity and "banal" cosmopolitalization -- ch. 2. Internationalization of Japanese cinema : how Japan was different from the West and above Asia before globalization -- ch. 3. Globalization of film finance : the actually existing cosmopolitanisms of Japanese film producers -- ch. 4. Global America? : American-Japanese film co-productions from Shogun (1980) to The Grudge 2 (2006) -- ch. 5. Pan-Asian cinema? : the last of Japan-centred regional cosmopolitanism Summary With careful research and unique first-person observations drawn from years of working within the international industry of Japanese film, the author examines how different generations of Japanese filmmakers engaged and interacted with the structural opportunities and limitations posed by external forces Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Motion picture industry -- Japan -- History Motion pictures and globalization -- Japan Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Japan Culture and globalization -- Japan Culture and globalization Motion picture industry Motion pictures and globalization Motion pictures -- Social aspects Japan Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789888053872 9888053876

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