Daisuke Miyao

Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Miyao is the author of Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (2020), Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies (2019), The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (2013), and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (2007). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (2014) and the co-editor of The World of Benshi (2024) with Michael Emerich, and Transnational Cinematography Studies (2017) with Lindsay Coleman and Roberto Schaefer.