Daisuke Miyao, Professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego, is the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. His ultimate selection factors greatly into that book, but also picks an international array of differing genres and forms.

Daisuke is also the author of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy, Le Samouraï: BFI Film Classics, Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies, and The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema. He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema and the co-editor of The World of Benshi with Michael Emerich and Transnational Cinematography Studies with Lindsay Coleman and Roberto Schaefer.

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