Japanese Film and the Floating Mind

Justin Vicari is an award-winning poet, essayist and film writer. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Table of Contents


Preface: Japanese Film X

Introduction: Paradoxes of Perception: In a Ghostly Theater

Part One: Toward the Last Ontology

1. Moon in Water

2. The Broken Heart of Ontology

3. Anxieties of Change, Changing Anxieties

4. Extremisms

5. The Last Ontology

Part Two: The Floating World

6. Refugees of the Floating World

7. The Meanings of the Wound

Part Three: Emperor Worship

8. The Problem of Emperor Worship

9. Naruse: An Early and Enduring Critic of Emperor Worship

10. Ozu, After Surrender

11. “Just a memory”: The Figure of the Emperor in Postwar Melodrama

12. Three Films

Mizoguchi’s Women of the Night

Imamura’s Outlaw Matsuo Comes Home

Wakamatsu’s Caterpillar

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index