Contents

A Note on the Text

1     Prologue

2     The Gate

3     Primal Scenes

4     Beginnings (A Stray Dog Story)

5     Confessions

6     The Benshi

7     Labyrinth

8     The Witnesses, and the Silence

9     A Tale of the Brothers Kurosawa

10   The Other Akutagawa

11   Slow Motion

12   The Trial

13   Requiem/Rebirth

Timeline

Filmography

Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index