is a Japanese author, cultural essayist, translator, film historian, and critic. His real name is .
Biography
Inuhiko Yomota was born on February 20, 1953, in Nishinomiya, HyÃ
Âgo Prefecture, but grew up in Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in religious studies, and continued in graduate school there to study comparative literature and culture. After finishing graduate school, he traveled the world as a guest professor and researcher at Konkuk University in South Korea, Columbia University in the United States, the University of Bologna in Italy, Tel Aviv University in Israel and Pristina University in Kosovo. He was formerly a professor of film studies and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin University. He is married to Chie Tarumi, a scholar of Taiwanese literature during the Japanese occupation.
His main area of study is film history, particularly the history of film in East Asian countries, and organizes an annual symposium on differing topics in film history. His other areas of study include cooking, literature, manga, music, cultural minorities, foreign language, and foreign countries (especially Korea).
Inuhiko Yomota has published nearly eighty books since the beginning of his career and has won several literary prizes for his work, including the Kodansha Essay Prize. He has also translated works by American and Palestinian authors into Japanese.
Bibliography
Publications
- RyumiÃÂru no Tatakai: Eiga e no Zenshinteki YokubÃ
 (1980)
- EizÃ
 no ShÃ
Âkan: Essay Cinematographique (1983)
- EizÃ
 YÃ
Âri (1984)
- Critique (1984)
- Hito Sore wo Eiga to Yobu (1985)
- Eiga wa MÃ
 Sugu Hyakusai ni Naru (1986)
- Warera ga "Tasha" Suru Kankoku (1987)
- Kishu to Tensei (1987)
- Shokutaku no Ue no Chiisa na Konton (1987)
- KanjÃ
 KyÃ
Âiku (1988)
- Jojishi no KennÃ
 (1988)
- MÃ
 Hitori no Tenshi: Nostalgia to ShÃ
«shÃ
« wo Meguru 48 no Seisatsu (1988)
- Oukenbon: Papers '89~'90 (1991)
- Lu Xun: Mezamete Hito ha Doko e Iku ka (Ningen Monogatari) (1992)
- Tsukishima Monogatari (1992)
- EkkyÃ
 no Ressun: Higashi Ajia no Genzai - Itsutsu no Taiwa (1992)
- Matsu Koto no Yorokobi (1992)
- Eiga no Ufufu (1992)
- Doll's House no Eigakan (1993)
- Yomu Koto no Anima: Kodomobeya no Sekai Bungaku (1993)
- Den'ei FÃ
«un (1993)
- Akainu Hon: Papers '91~'92 (1993)
- Bungakuteki Kioku (1993)
- Kaihi to KÃ
Âdei (1994)
- Manga Genron (1994)
- KÃ
«sÃ
 RyokÃ
 no ShÃ
«jigaku: "GaribàRyokÃ
Âki" Ron (1996)
- Kishu to Tensei: Nakagami (1996)
- Odysseus no Kikan (1996)
- Eigashi e no ShÃ
Âtai (1998)
- Kokoro Tokimekasu (1998)
- Hoshi to Tomo ni Hashiru: Nisshi 1979-1997 (1999)
- Ã
Âkami ga Kuru zo! (1999)
- Nihon Eiga no Radikaru na Ishi (1999)
- 21-seiki wo Mezasu Korian Firumu (1999)
- Tabi no Ã
Âsama (1999)
- Nihon Eigashi 100-nen (2000)
- Morokko Rutaku (2000)
- Nihon no JoyÃ
«: Nihon no 50-nen Nihon no 200-nen(2000)
- Kedamono to Watashi (2000)
- Marco Polo to Shobutsu (2000)
- Tetsugaku Shokan (2000)
- Souru no FÃ
«kei: Kioku to HenbÃ
 (2001)
- High School: Bookish Life (2001)
- Ajia no Naka no Nihon Eiga (2001)
- Daisuki na Kankoku (2003)
- Eiga to HyÃ
ÂshÃ
 FukanÃ
Âsei (2003)
- Ajia Eiga to TaishÃ
«teki SÃ
ÂzÃ
Âryoku (2003)
- Mametsu no Uta (2003)
- High School 1968 (2004)
- Yubi ga Tsuki wo Sasu Toki, Gusha wa Yubi o Miru: Sekai no Mei Serifu 50 (2004)
- Shirato Sanpei Ron (2004)
- Kokoro ha Korogaru Ishi no YÃ
 ni: Papers 2003-2004 (2004)
- KÃ
Âkai no Mae no Dokusho (2004)
- Rabelais no Kodomotachi (2005)
- Miru Koto no Shio: Paresuchina/Serubia KikÃ
 (2005)
- Bruce Lee: Li Xiaolong no EikÃ
 to Kodoku (2005)
- "Kawaii" Ron (2006)
- Paresuchina Nau: SensÃ
Â/Eiga/Ningen (2006)
- Sensei to Watashi (2007)
- Ningen wo Mamoru Dokusho (2007)
- Hon'yaku to Zasshin: Dulcinea Blanca (2007)
- Nihon no MarÃÂno bungaku: Dulcinea Roja (2007)
- Nihon Eiga to Sengo no Shinwa (2007)
- Tsukishima Monogatari Futatabi (2007)
- Roba to SÃ
«pu: Papers 2005-2007 (2007)
- Yomota Inuhiko no Hikkoshi Jinsei (2008)
Compilation & editing
Translations
- ShikÃ
 Taiken Jigen no Tame no Shinrigaku (1979) - originally by Colin Wilson, collaboration with Kimiyoshi Yura
- YÃ
«ga na Emono (1989) - originally by Paul Bowles
- Kumo no Ie: Paul Bowles SakuhinshÃ
« (1995) - originally by Paul Bowles
- Tomaru Koto Naku: Paul Bowles Jiden (1995) - originally by Paul Bowles
- Paresuchina e Kaeru (1999) - originally by Edward Said
- Merodoramateki SÃ
ÂzÃ
Âryoku (2002) - originally by Peter Brooks, collaboration with Keiko Kimura
- ShishÃ
« Kabe ni Egaku (2006) - originally by Mahmoud Darwish
References
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