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:

Editor’s Note

"L’assimilation Mizoguchi/Utamaro est Évidence": Five Women around Utamaro and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

by Donald Kirihara

Film between Woodblock Printing and Tattoing: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Five Women around Utamaro

by Angles Dalle Vacche

Marginality and Centrality: The Myth of Asia in 1970s Hollywood

by Glenn Man

Global Image Consumption in the Age of Late Capitalism

by Bill Nichols

Representations of Micronesia Film, Video, and Television

by James Mellon

Book Review