Japanese Studies

Asian Educational Media Service   http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/
Descended from the Center for Educational Media (CEM) at Earlham, AEMS is a national clearinghouse for information about educational media (i.e., audio-visual) materials related to Asia. Maintains an up-to-date, computerized database of information about media which includes price and distributor information for materials still in print and holdings/lending information for materials held in the US. Can be searched by country, format, audience, subject, key word, title and date of production.

Bright Lights Film Journal Articles on Japanese Cinema   http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/japan.html
Articles on silent film, Kurosawa, gay films and more. Reviews of new releases.

Center for Asian American Media   http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/rf_cms/index.php
Created to counter the scarcity of images of Asians in film and television, to correct the often distorted portrayals of them in the mainstream media and to create opportunities for the full participation of Asian American producers in the public media. Source of many of the PBS films on Asian Americans; covers all of Asia; for all age groups; includes ethnic heritage, Japanese internment, aging, activism, art and performance.

China, Japan, Korea & Pacific Island Studies; Videotapes in the University of California at Berkeley Media Resources Center   http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/CJKVid.html
Gives synopses, length, citations for reviews.

フィルムネットワーク (Film Network)   http://www.acejapan.or.jp/film/index.html

Harvard Film Archive   http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/
With preservation as its watchword, the Harvard Film Archive stores more than 8,000 films in climate-controlled vaults in Massachusetts, saving rare and valuable film from rapid deterioration. The HFA provides regular showings of its films and presents film series that explore the work of various directors, genres, and themes. In Spring 2005, the HFA will present a series on Koreeda Hirokazu, the director of Afterlife and Maborosi.

iFilm Connections: Asia and Pacific   http://www.asianfilms.org/
A catalog of recent feature films and award winning films. Essays on Japanese cinema, and filmography of prominent directors such as Kurosawa

Institute of Isao Takahata & Hayao Miyazaki Films    http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/%7Erst/index.shtml
高畑ｰ宮崎作品研究所 
Includes filmography, reviews and articles about films.

JPNFILM.COM (Japanese)   http://www.jpnfilm.com/
Includes Japanese, international, student and online film festivals.

Kinema Club, Ohio State   http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html
Kinema Club is an informal group of scholars studying Japanese cinema and other moving image media (the name comes from a famous Taisho era movie theater in Kobe) which was formed out of the shared need for bibliographic information. Has information on holdings in North American libraries, links to Japanese production companies, film festivals, actors, data and search engines, a discussion of Noel Burch's, To the Distant Observer, a guide to film specialty bookstores in Japan, and how to find prints in the US. Extremely useful.

Tokyo International Film Festival   http://www.tiff-jp.net/en/
東京国際映画祭