Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168).
Filmography (159-162).
Preface -- The classical, the modern, and Japanese cinema in the global system -- Yasujiro Ozu : a short history of the home drama -- Kenji Mizoguchi and his women -- Men with swords and men with suits : the cinema of Akira Kurosawa -- Mikio Naruse : a Japanese woman's cinema -- Remembering the war : three postwar war films -- -- Conclusion