This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) outsiders, who almost, always do not speak or read Japanese. My area of attention is directed to films depicting post World War II Japan and the Japanese, and, in many cases, films showing how foreigners in the same time-frame respond to Japan. Why have a substantial number of films been set there by strangers? As a body of work, what do they tell us about...