1st Edition

Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

By Tom Mes Copyright 2023
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment in big budget films. It examines how studios and directors worked quickly to capitalize on niche markets or upcoming and current trends, and how as a result this period of history in Japanese cinema... Read more
  1. Scholars, Canons, and Videotape: Unboxing Japanese Cinema
  2. Parallel Canons: Japanese Cinema in the Eyes of the World, 1951-2000
  3. Through Global Northern Eyes

    Through East Asian Eyes

    Through Japanese Eyes

  4. Video Revolutions: Models of Video Distribution in the U.S.A. and Japan
  5. Home Video Distribution: A Tale of Two Systems

    ‘The Lowest Discursive Status’: Direct-to-Video Production and Distribution in the U.S.A.

  6. V-Cinema: A Domestic Model in Transnational Context
  7. ‘Neither Film Nor Television’: Gestation and Development of V-Cinema

    Internationalization of V-Cinema

  8. Accidental Auteurs: The Director in V-Cinema
  9. J-Horror, Restraint, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi

    The Yakuza Film, Excess, and Miike Takashi

  10. Slaughterhouse V

Biography

Tom Mes is a Lecturer at Keio University, Japan