JAPAN 80
How Does It Move? Action and Moving Image in Modern Japan
Grades
3.74
Average grade awarded in JAPAN 80. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
82%
of the 381 letter grades
D, F or W
1.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
7%
93% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 381 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.73 to 3.75.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 145 · 38.1%
- A 122 · 32.0%
- A- 47 · 12.3%
- B+ 22 · 5.8%
- B 23 · 6.0%
- B- 5 · 1.3%
- C+ 6 · 1.6%
- C 5 · 1.3%
- C- 2 · 0.5%
- D 1 · 0.3%
- F 3 · 0.8%
- P 25 of 408
- NP 2 of 408
Percentages are of the 381 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and no-passes (NP).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YAMAZAKI, JUNKO reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.74 | 381 | 2 | 82% | very light | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- 3 quizzes, said by 3 reviewers
- 1 paper, said by 11 reviewers
- 1 project, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 16 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for JAPAN 80 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably. dibs has no record of it in any quarter since Spring 2023.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. How is action constituted on the screen? How has modern technological media informed and transformed our experience and understanding of action? Exploration of how our experience and conception of action is mediated by technological aesthetic media by tracing history of portrayal and experience of action both in media theory and practice. Emphasis on moving image practices surrounding production and reception of popular action film genres from Japan such as chambara or samurai film and yakuza film. Consideration also of their relationship to international film cultures and genres (e.g. Hollywood Western, gangster film, Chinese martial arts cinema, and contemporary Hollywood blockbusters) in context of broader historical transformations in media practices and in modes of distribution and reception. Study of theoretical debates, institutional practices, and ethical and political questions that inform our inquiries into moving image as action, and into action as/through moving image. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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