Introduction: Narrating high-speed growth through film
Drifting in Tokyo: reconstruction and uneven development in Kawashima Yūzō's Susaki paradise red light (1956)
A girl from Izu: labor migration and modern subjectivity in Masumura Yasuzō's Blue-sky girl (1957)
Osaka, city of spies: the powerless worker in industrial society in Inoue Akira's Black weapon (1964)
Yokohama romance: the Cold War, revolution, and Asian solidarity in Ezaki Mio's A warm misty night (1967)
Waiting for spring in Shiretoko: a postscript to high-speed growth in Kumashiro Tatsumi's the Light of Africa (1975)
Coda