TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE “By focusing on a range of significant genres and allowing contributors to adopt their preferred

analytical approaches, the Directory of World Cinema: Japan provides a unique insight into
‘Japaneseness’ through the medium of film, and its national evolution as a mode of industrial
and cultural production.” John Berra

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Japanese film and culture by producing a quiz.

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1. With which leading man would the director Akira Kurosawa frequently collaborate?

2. Which five-film gangster series was originated by the director Kinji Fukasaku?

3. Who played the title role in Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion and its two sequels?

4. Which short story by the popular novelist Haruki Murakami was adapted for the big
screen by Jun Ichikawa in 2004?

5. The Hollywood western The Magnificent Seven was inspired by which Akira
Kurosawa classic?

6. Which 1960 film by Kaneto Shindo won the Grand Prix at the Moscow International
Film Festival?

7. What is the Japanese term for a period piece?

8. Which 1999 Hideo Nakata horror film spawned several sequels and an American
remake?

9. What was the sequel to Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo?

10. What is the Japanese term for the New Wave?

11. Who was regarded as the ‘godfather of pink cinema’, due to such controversial
classics as Violated Angels and Go Go Second Time Virgin?

12. Which Akira Kurosawa classic concerns the hunt for a police detective’s missing
pistol?

13. Which cult gangster film by Seijun Suzuki led to the director’s dismissal from N
Studios?

14. Which 1954 film follows the lives of a school teacher and her first twelve students?

15. Who directed the revisionist samurai films, The Twilight Samurai and The Hidden
Blade?

16. Akira Kurosawa used Shakespeare’s Macbeth as the template for which historical
epic?

17. The anime feature The Castle of Cagliostro was a big-screen spin-off from which
popular animated television series?

18. What is the name of the regulatory board for Japanese Cinema which was
established in 1949?

19. Which 1998 film deals with a group of people who find themselves in spiritual
limbo following their mortal passing?

20. Which blind swordsman, who has featured in a series of samurai films, was revived
recently by Takeshi Kitano?

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