摘要：This book describes how regional characteristics of places are shown in fifty-two movies, with the written narrative provided by 31 members of New Field Historical Geography (Yagairekishichirigaku Kenkyuukai). Though books about how movies can be used for history education in Japan are so numerous, as the writer points out in the introduction, the concept of interpreting a movie in terms of the geographical viewpoint is very novel. In addition, scenes and characters taken from these movies provide an important picture of a specific place and its local daily workings. This is interesting not only to geographers who focus on keywords such as place, space, and region but to a wide variety of readers.
