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This book deliberates on the role of the transnational in bringing to the mainstream what were formerly marginal Japanese B movie genres.

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The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its h

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