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This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese film, from the silent era to the present, focusing on its expansive consciousness. It examines masterpieces by Yasujir, Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Nagisa Oshima and other directors, discussing their influence on the Japanese culture of esoteric Zen Buddhism and relating them to recent neuroscientific theories of brain trauma.
Introduction: paradoxes of perception: in a ghostly theater -- Pt. 1. Toward the last ontology -- Moon in water -- The broken heart of ontology -- Anxieties of change, changing anxieties -- Extremisms -- The last ontology -- Pt. 2. The floating world -- Refugees of the floating world -- The meanings of the wound -- Pt. 3. Emperor worship -- The problem of emperor worship -- Naruse: an early and enduring critic of emperor worship -- Ozu, after surrender -- "Just a memory": the figure of the emperor in postwar melodrama -- Three films: Mizoguchi's Women of the night, Imamura's Outlaw Matsuo comes home, Wakamatsu's Caterpillar -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.