Research fields:
Film studies
Research themes:
Representation of masculinity and sexual minorities in Japanese and American films
Main books and papers:
◆“Kissing off the Defeat: Cross-Dressing as the Japanese Postwar Condition in Oitsu Owaretsu” Journal of Homosexuality, 2021
◆“A Man to Remember: Two Film Adaptations of Kokoro” Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 2021
◆“A Man with Whom Men Fall in Love: Homosociality and Effeminophobia in the Abashiri Bangai-chi Series” Japanese Studies, 2021
◆“It’s Tough Being a Humanist: Yōji Yamada, the Cynical Company Man” Asian Cinema, 2019
◆“Season of Nouvelle Vague: A ‘New Wave’ Discourse in 1960 and The Warped Ones” Transcommunication, 2019