**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Marcos P. Centeno-Mart´ın** is Lecturer in Japanese Studies and coordinator of the Japanese Programme at Birkbeck, University of London. Before that, he worked for the department of Japan and Korea at SOAS, where he taught several courses on Japanese Cinema and convened the MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural. Centeno Mart´ın has also served as Research Associate at Waseda University and Research Fellow at the Universitat de Valencia. His research interests revolve ` around Japanese documentary film, Hani Susumu, film theory, transnationality, postwar avant-garde and the representation of minorities.

**Norimasa Morita** is Professor in film and literary study and served as Dean of the School of International Liberal Studies and Vice-President for international affairs at Waseda University. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Kent, Canterbury, in 1991 and has been teaching and researching mainly film and literary theory at Waseda University. His research interests include realism in film and literature, postmodernism, and adaptation practice and theory, and the topics of his recent publications include non-English adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, fictionalisation of historical figures and events, and Japanese writers and filmmakers in Great Britain.
