After watching the Nikkatsu Noir films from Criterion I thought it was time to follow it up with a book about the genre, No Borders No Limits by Mark Schilling. It is not the most comprehensive book on the subject of Japanese noir since it was expanded from a program on a retrospective series of Nikkatsu films, but there is a lot of great information in it. After the generla introduciton there are profiles: The Nikkatsu Action Big Three Plus One ( Yujiro Ishihara, Akira Kobayashi, Keiichiro Akagi, and Tetsuya Watari), The Women of Nikkatsu (Mie Kitahara, Ruriko Asaoka, Izumi Ashikawa, Meiko Kaji), The Best Of The Rest (Joe Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Nobuo Kaneko, Tamio Kawachi, Hideaki Takahashi, and Tatsuya Fuji), and The Directors (Toshio Masuda, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Seijun Suzuki, and Yasuhara Hasebe).
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