Research Guides

Here are a few online guides to researching Japanese cinema.

Japanese Reference Materials for Studying Japanese Cinema at Yale University

映画（国立国会図書館）

Research Notes

Kinema Club began with members sharing copies of tables of contents of rare Japanese film journals and has expanded to present original research and disseminate broad-ranging information on Japanese moving image media. This section of the website presents conference reports, research notes, notes and reviews on films, and bibliographies (including some of those tables of contents). Submissions are welcome and will be refereed by the editorial collective.

Film Notes

This section is devoted less to film reviews than to more analytical and conceptual investigations of individual films.

Tables of Contents

Kinema Club started as a group to exchange tables of contents of the major Japanese language film periodicals. Since few film periodicals in Japan are indexed, particularly older ones, this is a great way to make identity potential articles before heading off to Japan or using interlibrary loan. To find out which libraries hold runs of these periodicals, check with your reference librarian or search on WorldCat.