Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima ISBN: 9780816694211 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Documentary films -- Japan -- History and criticism;
Among Asian countriesOCowhere until recently documentary filmmaking was largely the domain of governmentsOCoJapan was exceptional for the vigor of its film industry. And yet, Japanese documentary remains largely unstudied outside of Japan. The first English-language study of the subject, this book provides an enlightening look at the first fifty years of documentary film theory and practice in Japan."