The first film journal devoted to the Asia-Pacific region as a whole provides a forum in which Asian and Western cinemas can be introduced to and appreciated by a world-wide audience.

Contents:

Tokyo on Film

by Tadao Sato

Something Like Yoshiwara: The Cultural Perspective

by Keiko McDonald

"Four Hundred Years in a Convent, Fifty in Hollywood": Sexual Identity and Dissent in Contemporary Philippine Cinema

by Gina Marchetti

The Hindi Film Song and Guru Dutt

by Darius Cooper

The Sublimitive Text: Sex and Revolution in Big Road

by Chris Berry

Film as Language, Film as Power

by Dana Polan

The Portrayal of the Canadian Native in the American Cinema: Selected Cases

by James M. Skinner

The Debut of a Film Director: Nakajima Takehiro

by Linda C. Ehrlich