Assignment Requirements
Choose to compare and contrast two films, one each from Group 1 and Group 2: Group
1: Godzilla, Twenty-Four Eyes, Seven Samurai, Tokyo Story, and Giants and Toys;
Group 2: Tokyo Drifter, Minamata:The Victims and Their World; No Man’s Zone;
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Rhapsody in August, Bubble Fiction: Boom or
Bust, and Tokyo Sonata.
You may focus on a similar theme, a shared critical problem,
or a combination of some of them.
Web sources for Japanese Studies & Japanese Film
East Asian Studies (Columbia University):
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/exeas/links/category-film.html
Japanese cinema articles & databases (English & Japanese):
http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=38436&sid=409799#10368835
Ohio State Univ. Japanese Studies: http://easc.osu.edu/ijs/resources/studies
Midnight Eye: Visions of Japanese Cinema: http://www.midnighteye.com/
Mark Schilling, Japan Times film critic: http://japanesemovies.homestead.com/
Aaron Gerow’s Japanese Film Page: http://www.aarongerow.com/
Sense of Cinema: http://sensesofcinema.com/
Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/
Zakka Films: http://www.zakkafilms.com/#
YesAsia: http://www.yesasia.com/
Commercial streaming: Netflix.com, Amazon.com. iTunes, etc.
Hulu Plus (virtually complete Criterion collection of Japanese films for commercial
streaming): http://www.hulu.com/
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