 | A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos by Donald Richie Buy used from: $8.58 |
 | The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $4.45 |
 | Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, Updated Edition: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.36 |
 | Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook by Patrick Galloway Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $8.49 |
 | Japanese Film Directors by Audie Bock Buy used from: $2.50 |
 | New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film by Isolde Standish Buy used from: $7.00 |
 | Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Horror, Fantasy, and Sci Fi Films by Thomas Weisser Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $3.84 |
 | The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films by Mark Schilling Buy new: $15.87 / Used from: $8.88 |
 | Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film by Chris Desjardins Buy new: $20.74 / Used from: $3.95 |
 | Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History Buy used from: $5.00 |
 | Japanese Cinema: The Essential Handbook, 4th Edition by Yuko Mihara Weisser Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.95 |
 | Picturing Japaneseness by Darrell William Davis Buy new: $32.00 / Used from: $1.06 |
 | Mizoguchi and Japan by Mark Le Fanu Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $27.48 Mizoguchi was recently voted the world's greatest ever director by the most distinguished French film magazine- this study is long overdue! |
 | Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging by David Bordwell Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $19.95 This covers 4 relatively neglected directors- the only Japanese is Mizoguchi. I've still included it here cos its chapter on him is the best i've come across, and invaluable to understanding his work. |
 | The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith IV Buy used from: $50.00 |
 | The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated: With a New Epilogue by Donald Richie Buy new: $30.39 / Used from: $12.29 |
 | Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell Buy used from: $69.75 |
 | Ozu: His Life and Films by Donald Richie Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $18.99 |
 | Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation by Helen McCarthy Buy new: $14.61 / Used from: $5.74 |
 | Beat Takeshi Vs. Takeshi Kitano by Casio Abe Buy new: $17.55 / Used from: $2.26 |
 | Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes Buy used from: $9.94 |
 | The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast by Maureen Turim Buy new: $31.95 / Used from: $4.71 |
 | Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto by Tom Mes Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $11.80 |
 | Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (BFI Film Classics) by Dudley Andrew Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $4.49 |
 | Seven Samurai (BFI Film Classics) by Joan Mellen Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.80 |
