List of Figures Introduction Kyle Barrowman 1. Isolating Ichikawa: Auteurism between Form and Content Kyle Barrowman 2. A High Commercial Aesthetic: Rethinking Authorship and Adaptation through the Films of Kon Ichikawa and Natto Wada Diane Wei Lewis 3. The Way of the Painter: Watching Kon Ichikawa Think Through Images Isolde Vanhee 4. Two Dark Men: Kon Ichikawa and Kazuo Miyagawa's Chromatic Experiments in Black Daisuke Miyao 5. Kon Ichikawa: The Man Who Visualized the Landscape of Collective Memory in Japan Kiyoko Nagai 6. Kon Ichikawa and the National Imaginary: An Ambivalent Relationship Christopher Smith 7. The Bitterness of Youth: Punishment Room and the Sun Tribe Films in Postwar Japan Erica Ka-yan Poon 8.

Kon Ichikawa's Theater of War Daniel Morgan 9. Staging Scenes of Poetic Justice: Ichikawa's Kindaichi Mystery Adaptations Jeffrey DuBois 10. The Architectonics of Voyeurism and Familial Interactions in Odd Obsession and The Makioka Sisters , Ichikawa's Tanizaki Adaptations Maureen Turim 11. Orchestrating Spectacles: Project Cinema from Tokyo Olympics '64 to Osaka Expo '70 Hideaki Fujiki 12. Kon-mation Laura Lee Index.