The Grave on the Wall is a 2019 memoir by Brandon Shimoda, published by City Lights.

"[3]With the inclusion of images, the book makes direct references to works by Akira Kurosawa and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

[5] Los Angeles Review observed Shimoda's inherent critique against memorialization, instead pointing out that "His collaging of the historical document with the personal, the folkloric, and the frustrating silences and absences he faces along the way, creates a text that pushes against commemoration.

"[6] The reviewer also lauded Shimoda's ability to harness poetry from film stills pulled from Kurosawa and Cha.

The reviewer stated: "The Grave among other things reads as a feat to me, as if something truly massive were fit into two hundred pages, without compromise or shortcut or disassembly or surgery.