(14 January 1900 – 7 July 1959) was a left-wing

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and film critic. He was a founding member of the

Proletarian Film League of Japan The , shortened to Prokino, was a left-wing film organization active in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Japan. Associated with the proletarian arts movement in Japan, it primarily used small gauge films such as 16mm film and 9.5mm film to record ...

(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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sasa, Genju Japanese film critics Japanese film directors 1900 births 1959 deaths