Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-446) and index.
Includes filmography: pages [431]-434.
The silent films : women in the city, 1930-1934 -- Naruse at P.C.L. : toward a Japanese classical cinema, 1935-1937 -- Not a monumental cinema : wartime vernacular, 1938-1945 -- The occupation years : cinema, democracy, and Japanese kitsch, 1945-1952 -- The Japanese woman's film of the 1950s, 1952-1958 -- Naruse in the 1960s : stranded in modernity, 1958-1967