Daisuke MiyaoDaisuke Miyao is the Chair of the Literature Department at UCSD and the author of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy (2026), 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). Read More Read Less