Japanese Cinema Archives

jca is an up-and-coming blog with reviews of japanese films and anime. the idea for jca formed in the late 2000s, when i was studying film history and alternative film at the university in oslo. at the time the project was meant to become a book, rather than a blog. this all changed in the early 2010s, when i was working on my master's thesis on the style of japanese cinema. over the next 15 years, i saw and took notes on hundreds of japanese movies. finally, after some uninspired years, i rekindled my interest for japanese film, which in turn led to the startup of japanese cinema archives in 2019. jca - robin syversen m.phil: japanese culture studies thesis: rearticulating japanese cinematic style guest lecturer: japanese film history (uio) film blogger: z film quarterly znett.com contact: jcapostbox@gmail.com