(14 January 1900 – 7 July 1959) was a left-wing
Japanese
film director and
film critic
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outl ...
. He was a founding member of the
Proletarian Film League of Japan (Prokino), providing inspiration to the movement through his writings and his films.
Bibliography
* Makino, Mamoru.
Rethinking the Emergence of the Proletarian Film League of Japan (Prokino)" ''In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in Honor of Makino Mamoru''. Eds. Aaron Gerow and Abé Mark Nornes (Kinema Club, 2001).
*
Prewar Proletarian Film Movements Collection Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Full text of many Prokino publications, including some of Sasa's articles.
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Japanese film critics
Japanese film directors
1900 births
1959 deaths