Woman of the mist and Gosho in the 1930s / Arthur Nolletti, Jr.
Why does Oharu faint? : Mizoguchi's The life of Oharu and patriarchal discourse / Robert N. Cohen
Ikiru : narration as a moral act / David Desser
Oshima Nagisa, or the battered energy of desire / Max Tessier
Narrative strategies in Ozu's late films / Kathe Geist
The inn sequence from Ozu's Late autumn / Donald Richie
Period films in the prewar era / Lisa Spalding
Toward a structural analysis of the postwar Samurai film / David Desser
The Yakuza film : an introduction / Keiko Iwai McDonald
Fires on the plain : the human cost of the Pacific war / William B. Hauser
Comic targets and comic styles : an introduction to Japanese film comedy / Gregory Barrett.

Some characteristics of Japanese cinema before World War I / Komatsu Hiroshi
Spoken silents in the Japanese cinema; or, talking to pictures : essaying the Katsuben, contextualizing the texts / J.L. Anderson
Sound in the early Japanese talkies / Iwamoto Kenji
A cinema of flourishes : Japanese decorative classicism of the prewar era / David Bordwell.