Japanese Film and the Floating Mind

<p> Japanese film is enduringly fascinating challenging and rewarding. This book provides a cultural historical and philosophical study of Japanese film from the silent era to the present-day focusing on its expansive consciousness. The author examines masterpieces by Ozu Mizoguchi Oshima and many other directors discussing their influence on the Japanese culture of esoteric Zen Buddhism and relating them to recent neuroscientific theories of brain trauma.</p>