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Lauren Tamaki is a Canadian illustrator living in New York. Her clients include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Pentagram, Penguin, and the New Yorker. She is currently working on a book about the incarceration of Japanese Americans...

Catherine Russell is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is the author of four books and numerous articles on narrative theory, experimental ethnography, Japanese cinema, experimental film, Canadian cinema, and Walter Benjamin. Please see www.catherinerussell.ca.

Thomas Rimer is a professor of Japanese Literature and Theater at the University of Pittsburgh and has been published widely on various aspects of Japanese theater, literature, and cultural history.

Mark Le Fanu teaches film at University College London. He has written extensively about Russian and Japanese cinema. His most recent book, Believing in Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2018), has just been issued in paperback.

Patrick Macias is the author of TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion and the writer of the Paranoia Girls web comic.

Joan Mellen is the author of several books about Japanese cinema, including Voices from the Japanese Cinema and The Waves at Genji’s Door as well as monographs for the BFI on Seven Samurai and In the Realm of the Senses....

Michael Raine teaches Japanese cinema and other courses in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Program in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He has published on various aspects of Japanese cinema...

Tony Rayns is a London-based critic with a special interest in the film cultures of East Asia. He has been awarded the Kawakita Prize (2004) and the Foreign Ministry of Japan’s Commendation (2008) for services to Japanese cinema. His books...

Donald Richie has written widely on Japanese film and is the author of the seminal book The Films of Akira Kurosawa (University of California, 1965; revised 1998).

Mar 16, 2009 — Dave Kehr heralds the rediscovery of “the oceanic depth and diversity of Japanese cinema” in recent years, “thanks in no small part to home video,” in a lovely New York Times piece on the latest example of that, Eclipse Series...