Makoto Wada  ( 和田誠 , b. 1936) is best known as an illustrator whose work has adorned the pages of writers as diverse as Shinichi Hosh...

Makoto Wada ( 和田誠 , b. 1936) is best known as an illustrator whose work has adorned the pages of writers as diverse as Shinichi Hosh...

Makoto Wada ( 和田誠 , b. 1936) is best known as an illustrator whose work has adorned the book covers and pages of writers as diverse as...

In 2001, I was writing a paper on Nagisa Oshima’ s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), and decided to find out if any American fi...

Made at the peak of Humphrey Bogart ’s career, Tokyo Joe ( Stuart Heisler , 1949) provides some rare glimpses into life in Tokyo under the...

Samuel Fuller ’s House of Bamboo (東京暗黒街・竹の家, 1955) was the first Hollywood feature film to be shot on location in Japan. One earlier film...