Introduction / Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai -- pt. 1, Global encounters of the first kind. Remaking Seven samurai in world cinema / David Desser -- Fashioning modernity : Hollywood and the Hong Kong musical 1957-64 / Gary Needham -- Electric shadow of an airplane : Hong Kong cinema, world cinema / Charles Leary -- pt. 2., All changing on the eastern front. Infernal affairs and Kung fu hustle : panacea, placebo and Hong Kong cinema / Leung Wing-Fai -- Contemporary South Korean cinema : 'national conjunction' and 'diversity' / Chris Howard -- The language of the blockbuster : promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese film culture / Rayna Denison -- pt. 3.,Made in translation--transnational identities. Suriyothai becomes Legend : national identity as global currency / Adam Knee -- Last life in the universe : nationality, technology, authorship / Brian Ruh -- From Three godfathers to Tokyo godfathers : signifying social change ina transnational context / David Scott Diffrient -- Transnational noir : style and substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The most terrible time in my life / Theresa L. Geller -- pt. 4.,How the west was won? Asianisation and beyond. Remaking east Asia, outsourcing Hollywood / Gary G. Xu -- Salute to Mr. vengeance! : the making of a transnational auteur Park Chan-wook / 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.