Author Spotlight

Michael Raine

Michael Raine teaches Japanese cinema and other courses in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Program in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He has published on various aspects of Japanese cinema and is currently writing a history of the shifting relations between Japanese cinema and popular culture, 1955–64.

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Crazed Fruit: Imagining a New Japan—The Taiyozoku Films
Crazed Fruit: Imagining a New Japan—The Taiyozoku Films

Kô Nakahira’s taboo-busting melodrama heralded a reinvention of Japanese cinema.

By Michael Raine

Essays— Jun 28, 2005