Daisuke Miyao

Biography

Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Miyao is the author of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy (Duke University Press, 2026), Le Samouraï (BFI Film Classics, Bloomsbury, 2026), Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Duke University Press, 2020), Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019), The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (Duke University Press, 2013), and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (Duke University Press, 2007). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of The World of Benshi with Michael Emerich (UCLA Yanai Initiative, 2024), and Transnational Cinematography Studies with Lindsay Coleman and Roberto Schaefer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).