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Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Foreword by Donald Richie 1 Introduction 3 Part One: The Narrative Set in the Past 1. The Japanese Period 11 2. The Japanese Period Piece 27 3. The Japanese Hero 00 4. Sixteenth Century Japan in Film 00 5. The Yakuza Film 00 Part Two: Realism in the Narrative 6. The Shinkokugeki and the Zenshinza: Western Representational Realism and the Japanese Period Film 00 7. Historical Realism 000 8. From Stage Realism to Film Realism 000 Part Three: The Scene in Japanese Narrative 9. Thematic Composition, Formulaic Diction and Cinema 000 10. The Japanese Epic as Buddhist Sermon 000 11. Thematic Composition in the Japanese Epic: On the Type Scene 000 12. Traditional Narrative and Yamada Y_ji 000 Chapter Notes 000 Filmography 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Historical films -- Japan -- History and criticism.