Table of Contents |
| Preface | vii |
| Acknowledgements | xi |
| Note on Romanization of Asian Names and Scripts | xiii |
| Introduction | 1 |
ch. One | Japanese National Identity and "Banal" Cosmopolitalization | 9 |
| The Crisis of National Identity | 9 |
| The Formation of Different Types of Cosmopolitan Subjectivity | 13 |
ch. Two | Internationalization of Japanese Cinema -- How Japan Was Different from the West and above Asia before Globalization | 25 |
| The Occupation, Japanese National Cinema and Industry | 29 |
| A New Set of Lies -- Post-war National Subjectivity | 35 |
| Legitimizing Cosmopolitanism and Self-Orientalism | 40 |
| Technology and Japan's Oriental-Orientalism in Asia | 51 |
| The Golden Age of the Hong Kong-Japanese Cinematic Interchange | 60 |
| The Emergence of Resistance Cosmopolitanism | 67 |
ch. Three | Globalization of Film Finance -- The Actually Existing Cosmopolitanisms of Japanese Film Producers | 75 |
| Banal Cosmopolitanization and the Mini-Theatres | 80 |
| Globalizing Japanese Cinema -- Reticent Legitimizing Cosmopolitanism | 89 |
| The Precarious Life of a Japanese Resistance Cosmopolitan in Europe | 97 |
| Japanese Alternative Cinema and Cosmopolitanism | 103 |
ch. Four | Global America? -- American-Japanese Film Co-Productions from Shogun (1980) to The Grudge 2 (2006) via Lost in Translation (2003) | 113 |
| The Production of Shogun (1980) | 120 |
| The Japanese Line Producer of Shogun -- Hiroaki Fujii | 123 |
| The Production of Lost in Translation (2003) | 126 |
| The Japanese Line Producer of Lost in Translation -- Kiyoshi Inoue | 129 |
| Comparing the Two Films and the Two Japanese Line Producers | 132 |
| Remaking Global Hollywood -- Synopticon Control of Locals | 135 |
ch. Five | Pan-Asian Cinema? -- The Last of Japan-Centred Regional Cosmopolitanism | 145 |
| The Japan-Hong Kong Interaction since the Late 1980s | 149 |
| Working In-between Japan and Hong Kong | 154 |
| The Undercurrent of Japan-China Interaction | 159 |
| Hybrid Regionalism Practised by East Asian Film Students | 164 |
| Epilogue | 171 |
| Notes | 175 |
| List of Recorded Interviews | 179 |
| References | 181 |
| Index | 197 |