100 Years of Japanese Cinema

Author: Y?kan Yomota
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book is first and foremost a highly personal collection of historical essays. Indeed, historical research must be grounded in facts, and strict accuracy is the primary standard of historical study. However, the comprehensiveness and objectivity of any author are inevitably shaped by specific selections and perspectives, and absolute objectivity or completeness does not exist. This is because the absolute truth of history can never be fully obtained. The book is also a historical treatise with a clear international perspective. It not only employs comparative research methods when discussing each stage of Japanese cinema, contrasting the similarities and differences between Japanese cinema and Western or other Asian films from a horizontal comparative angle. The book presents a rich and diverse century-long journey of Japanese cinema in a concise and clear structure with lucid historical analysis language.
This book is first and foremost a highly personal collection of historical essays. Indeed, historical research must be grounded in facts, and strict accuracy is the primary standard of historical study. However, the comprehensiveness and objectivity of any author are inevitably shaped by specific selections and perspectives, and absolute objectivity or completeness does not exist. This is because the absolute truth of history can never be fully obtained. The book is also a historical treatise with a clear international perspective. It not only employs comparative research methods when discussing each stage of Japanese cinema, contrasting the similarities and differences between Japanese cinema and Western or other Asian films from a horizontal comparative angle. The book presents a rich and diverse century-long journey of Japanese cinema in a concise and clear structure with lucid historical analysis language.