Welcome to Kinema Club

Kinema Club is a website devoted to the study of Japanese moving image media. We started as a small, informal group of scholars sharing xeroxed copies of tables of contents for film magazines, and since starting the KineJapan list have grown to over 300 members. Our name comes from famous Taisho era movie theaters in Tokyo and Kobe (see below). Kinema Club and KineJapan are inclusive and open by nature. If you would like to contribute information or entirely new materials to the website, you are welcome to join in. Contact the manager: Abé Mark Nornes at amnornes@umich.edu.

For a history of Kinema Club read "From Copy Machine to Computers: Collaboration and Kinema Club" by Abé Mark Nornes.