In 2010, during the 10th edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival, Mark Schilling curated a retrospective of films produced at the Shintoho Studio under the leadership of Mitsugu Okura, who served as president from 1955 to 1961. To accompany the retrospective, “Nudes! Guns! Ghosts! The Sensational Films of Shintoho” a book written by Schilling was also published, offering an in-depth analysis of the history of the company, including biographies and interviews of some of its key individuals.

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In that fashion, the book begins with a chapter focusing on the history of the studio, from the its early days in 1947, when it was home to filmmakers like Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Naruse and Ichikawa, to Okura’s reign in the 50s and 60s, who turned the company towards genre filmmaking with the titular terms being key in the style of its titles, along with the ama films,...