All Stories

  1. 1 One Big Happy Family? The Social Relationships and Legacy of the Kinoshita-gumi

    Article • June 2025, De Gruyter

    Lauri Kitsnik

  2. Tangible Images Reading and Writing Japanese Cinema

    Article • October 2024, Edizioni Ca Foscari

    Lauri Kitsnik

  3. Rocking Under Orion’s Belt: The Rise and Fall of Seibu Kōdō as International Concert Venue

    Article • Japanese Studies, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Lauri Kitsnik

  4. Naoki Yamamoto, Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame

    Article • Screen, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Lauri Kitsnik

  5. Scouting for scripts: Mizuki Yōko and social issue film in post-war Japan

    Article • Journal of Screenwriting, September 2020, Intellect

    Lauri Kitsnik

  6. 12 Better Off Being Bacteria: Adaptation and Allegory in Dr. Akagi

    Article • May 2019, De Gruyter

    Lauri Kitsnik

  7. Record. Reenact. Recycle. Notes on Shindō Kaneto’s Documentary Styles

    Article • Arts, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Lauri Kitsnik

  8. Real and slow: The poetics and politics of The Naked Island

    Article • Asian Cinema, October 2018, Intellect

    Lauri Kitsnik

  9. The Bedridden Script Doctor: Itami Mansaku’s Scenario Reviews

    Article • Japanese Studies, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Lauri Kitsnik

  10. 1 Dancer, Doctor, Maiden, Mother: Tanaka Kinuyo’s Early Star Image

    Article • March 2018, De Gruyter

    Lauri Kitsnik

  11. Scenario writers and scenario readers in the Golden Age of Japanese cinema

    Article • Journal of Screenwriting, September 2016, Intellect

    Lauri Kitsnik

  12. Japan

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lauri Kitsnik

  13. Gazing at Kaoru: star image in film adaptations of The Dancing Girl of Izu

    Article • Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Lauri Kitsnik