Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films By Thomas Weisser, Yuko Mihara Weisser

Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films
By Thomas Weisser, Yuko Mihara Weisser
This is absolutly one of the bibles for anyone into strange cinema. It does provide a major survey of a little regarded (even in Japan)aspect of world cinema. It contains details of so many mouthwatering films, that one feels compelled to foregive the numerous mistakes in the film synopsise.

However the main difficulty with this book is that films are listed under the literal translation of their Japanese titles, so be prepared to examine your video cases to try and work out what title the film is listed under (a cross index of titles in English/ International release titles would be v. welcome). Having said that it is an utterly invaluable volume, which sets a benchmark for the rest of the Weissers' series.
Recommended for anyone into World Cinema not just exploitation anoraks!



Publisher: Vital Books | 1998-11 | 637 pages | ISBN-10/13: 1889288527 / 978-1889288529

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