Suspense and border crossing : Ozu Yasujirō's crime melodrama / Ryoko Misono ; translated by Kimberlee Diane Sanders and Shota T. Ogawa -- Beyond Mt. Fuji and the Lenin cap : identity crisis in Taniguchi Senkichi's Akasen kichi (The red light military base, 1953) / Hideyuki Nakamura ; translated by Shota T. Ogawa and Bianca Briciu -- Home movies of the revolution: proletarian filmmaking and countermobilization in interwar Japan / Diane Wei Lewis -- When Marnie was there : female friendship film and the genealogy of queer girls culture / Yuka Kanno -- Making sense of Nakai Masakazu's film theory, "Kino Satz" / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- Geysers of another nature : the optical unconscious of the Japanese science film / Anne McKnight -- Kaiju films as exportable content : reassessing the function of the Japanese Film Export Promotion Association / Takeshi Tanikawa ; translated by Caitlin Casiello and Joanne Bernardi -- "Fugitives" from the studio system : Ikebe Ryō, Sada Keiji, and the transition from cinema to television in the early 1960s / Takafusa Hatori -- Solo animation in Japan : empathy for the drawn body / Paul Roquet -- Media models of "amateur" film and manga / Alexander Zahlten -- Utsushie : Japanese magic lantern performance as pre-cinematic projection practice / Machiko Kusahara -- "Inter-mediating" global modernity : Benshi film narrators, multisensory performance, and fan culture / Kyoko Omori -- Between silent and sound : the liminal space of the Japanese "sound version" / Johan Nordström -- Marionettes no longer : politics in the early puppet animation of Kawamoto Kihachirō / Noboru Tomonari -- Rhetorics of autonomy and mobility in Japanese "AAA" games : the metal gear solid and Resident evil series within a global media context / Daniel Johnson -- Pointing through the screen : archiving, surveillance, and atomization in the wake of Japan's 2011 triple disasters / Joel Neville Anderson -- A historical survey of film archiving in Japan / Kae Ishihara -- Japanese film history and the challenges of IMAGICA WEST Corp. / Kanta Shibata (translated by Thomas Kabara and Isabella Bilodeau) -- A case study of Japanese film exhibition in North America : the Japan Society, New York / Kyoko Hirano -- Regional film archive in transit: Yasui Yoshio and Kobe Planet Film Archive / Shota T. Ogawa -- New paths toward preserving Japanese cinema : the Toy Film Museum backstory / Joanne Bernardi.