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- ↑ Sharp, Jasper (August 2014). "The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema". The Times Literary Supplement. London: 38.
- ↑ Amit, Rea (December 2014). "HomeBook Reviews Rewriting Japanese Cinema for the Global Age: The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema by Daisuke Miyao (ed.)". Sense of Cinema (73). Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ↑ Wroot, Jonathan (2015). "The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema, edited by Daisuke Miyao / East Asian Film Stars, edited by Leung Wing-Fai and Andy Willis". Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. 7 (2): 167–170. doi:10.1080/17564905.2015.1087155. ISSN 1756-4905.
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