The Japanese Cinema Book left me oddly excited about the prospect of new things to explore, and open to the prospect that even those chapters that don't appeal to me today may well do so in a little while. I dare say that there will be something in this book that will surprise you, and that if you put it on the shelf and come back to it a couple of years down the line, it will be a whole different treasure trove, because you will be a whole different person. This is a book to invest in, and a book to revisit. * All the Anime blog *