Watanabe Daisuke

Professor in the Department of Contemporary Culture and Representation at Atomi University. Born in 1982. Specializes in Japanese film history, visual culture studies, and media theory. Works include Jiburi no sengo: Kokuminteki sutajio no kiseki to sōzōryoku (Ghibli’s Postwar Era: The Trajectory and Imagination of a Leading Japanese Studio) and “Kimi no na wa” wa Nihon eiga ni nani o motarashita no ka: Anno Hideaki, Iwai Shunji, Shinkai Makoto kara yomitoku gendai Nihon eigashi (What Did Your Name Bring to Japanese Cinema? Deciphering Modern Japanese Film History Through Anno Hideaki, Iwai Shunji, and Shinkai Makoto).