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“All you need to know about the cutting edge of the new Japanese film genre.  Animated, inventive and imaginative, violent, and cool . . . a cinema that has reinvented itself.”
Donald Richie, author of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film

“An informed, opinionated look at contemporary Japanese film, from Suzuki to Miike.”
Mark Schilling, author of The Yakuza Movie Book

Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp explore the astounding resurgence of Japanese cinema, profiling the most creative contemporary Japanese filmmakers, from the well-known to the up-and-coming, and reviewing almost a hundred of their recent films. Richly illustrated with images from behind and in front of the camera, this is a book any film lover will savor. 

Tom Mes is the founder and co-editor of MidnightEye.com, the premier English-language Web site on contemporary Japanese cinema. He is the author of Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike. His writing has appeared in such magazines as Fangoria, Impact, Japan Magazine, and Skrien, and he regularly provides audio commentaries and liner notes to DVD releases of Japanese films. He lives in Paris.
Jasper Sharp is co-editor of MidnightEye.com. His work has appeared in magazines such as SFX, Japan: People, Power, Opinion, and the book anthology 24 Frames: The Cinema of Japan and Korea. He has conducted interviews and provided audio commentaries for a number of DVD releases. He is based in Tokyo.

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