Contents -- Foreword, by Dr. A.V. Liman -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One Contextualising Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film -- Chapter Two Problems of Communication, Identity, and Gendered Social Construction in Contemporary Japanese Cinema: the Look and the Voice -- Chapter Three Families, Crisis, and Film -- Chapter Four Horror, Thriller, Suspense: "Who Are You?" -- Chapter Five Travelling Toward the Self in Japanese Film -- Chapter Six The Human/Post-human in Japanese Animation -- Chapter Seven Animation and Identity: Drawing a Line Between the Real and the Ideal -- Conclusion Looking for the Face in the Frame -- Bibliography -- Index.