UNDER FOREIGN EYES: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan, by James King. Zero Books, 2012, 350 pp., $26.95 (paperback)
Most readers encountering a book called "Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan" will expect it to contain an interesting claim or claims about these Western representations of Japan, and that the claim or claims will be buttressed by sophisticated analysis of the films.
What we get instead in James King's book is one plot summary after another for each of the 60-plus films he writes about.