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A superb analysis of the relations between Japanese mythology, religion and folklore that will be of great value to anyone interested in Japanese culture and society. Using semiotic analysis, Okuyama offers readers a scholarly, yet accessibly written, study of Japanese films and anime such as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Departures. Highly recommended. -- Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University Popular all over the world, anime are too often viewed only as part of globalized popular culture. Japanese Mythology in Film offers a much-needed interpretive method foregrounding these films' adaptation of culturally specific tropes from Japanese folktales, legends, and folk religious beliefs. Pedagogically suited to courses on fairy tales, myth, popular culture, and film as well as to Japanese language and culture courses, Okuyama's book shows how film and anime make Japanese traditional values relevant to reimagining the relationship of humans and nature. -- Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawai'i at Manoa In Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime, Yoshiko Okuyama does a wonderful job of making theories of semiotics simple and easy to understand. Incorporating various current societal phenomena, Japanese Mythology in Film is an informative book for Japanese film and culture. -- Noriko Reider, Miami University

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Yoshiko Okuyama is associate professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

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