Introduction--Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai * Part One: Global Encounters of the First Kind * Remaking 'Seven Samurai' in World Cinema--David Desser * Fashioning Social Change in the Hong Kong Musical 1957-1964--Gary Needham * The Shadow of an Airplane over East Asia: Worldly Hong Kong Cinema--Charles Leary * Part Two: All Changing on the Eastern Front * 'Infernal Affairs' and 'Kung Fu Hustle': Panacea, Placebo and Hong Kong Cinema--Leung Wing-Fai * South Korea--A Model Film Industry?--Chris Howard and Min J. Lee * The Language of the Blockbuster: Promotion, 'Princess Mononoke' and the Daihitto in Japanese Film Culture--Rayna Denison * Part Three: Made in Translation--Transnational Identities * Suriyothai Becomes Legend: National Identity as Global Currency--Adam Knee * From Three Godfathers to Tokyo Godfathers: Signifying Social Change in a Transnational Context--David Scott Diffrient * Last Life in the Universe: Nationality, Technology, Authorship--Brian Ruh * Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Kaizo Hayashi's 'The Most Terrible Time of My Life'--Theresa Geller * Part Four: How the West Was Won? Asianisation and Beyond * Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood--Gang Gary Xu * Salute to Mr Vengeance: Oldboy and the Making of a Transnational Auteur--Nikki J.Y. Lee * Asiaphilia, Asianisation and the Gatekeeper Auteur: Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson--Leon Hunt * Brush and Blade in East-West Cultures--Sheng-mei Ma * Notes * Bibliography * Index * Introduction--Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai * Part One: Global Encounters of the First Kind * Remaking 'Seven Samurai' in World Cinema--David Desser * Fashioning Social Change in the Hong Kong Musical 1957-1964--Gary Needham * The Shadow of an Airplane over East Asia: Worldly Hong Kong Cinema--Charles Leary * Part Two: All Changing on the Eastern Front * 'Infernal Affairs' and 'Kung Fu Hustle': Panacea, Placebo and Hong Kong Cinema--Leung Wing-Fai * South Korea--A Model Film Industry?--Chris Howard and Min J. Lee * The Language of the Blockbuster: Promotion, 'Princess Mononoke' and the Daihitto in Japanese Film Culture--Rayna Denison * Part Three: Made in Translation--Transnational Identities * Suriyothai Becomes Legend: National Identity as Global Currency--Adam Knee * From Three Godfathers to Tokyo Godfathers: Signifying Social Change in a Transnational Context--David Scott Diffrient * Last Life in the Universe: Nationality, Technology, Authorship--Brian Ruh * Transnational Noir: Style and Substance in Kaizo Hayashi's 'The Most Terrible Time of My Life'--Theresa Geller * Part Four: How the West Was Won? Asianisation and Beyond * Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood--Gang Gary Xu * Salute to Mr Vengeance: Oldboy and the Making of a Transnational Auteur--Nikki J.Y. Lee * Asiaphilia, Asianisation and the Gatekeeper Auteur: Quentin Tarantino and Luc Besson--Leon Hunt * Brush and Blade in East-West Cultures--Sheng-mei Ma * Notes * Bibliography * Index *.