Table of Contents

Preface: Japanese Film X
Introduction: Paradoxes of Perception: In a Ghostly Theater
Part One: Toward the Last Ontology
1. Moon in Water
2. The Broken Heart of Ontology
3. Anxieties of Change, Changing Anxieties
4. Extremisms
5. The Last Ontology
Part Two: The Floating World
6. Refugees of the Floating World
7. The Meanings of the Wound
Part Three: Emperor Worship
8. The Problem of Emperor Worship
9. Naruse: An Early and Enduring Critic of Emperor Worship
10. Ozu, After Surrender
11. “Just a memory”: The Figure of the Emperor in Postwar Melodrama
12. Three Films
Mizoguchi’s Women of the Night
Imamura’s Outlaw Matsuo Comes Home
Wakamatsu’s Caterpillar
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index