Biography

Genjū Sasa (佐々元十, Sasa Genjū) (14 January 1900 – 7 July 1959) was a left-wing Japanese film director and film critic. He was a founding member of the Proletarian Film League of Japan (Prokino), providing inspiration to the movement through his writings and his films. While studying in the French department of linguistics in the University of Tokyo, Sasa Genjuu was part of the proletarian theater and one of the many member activities was visiting factories and other places in the workers' recess time and create agitprop through the means of short plays. They were known as "briefcase theater" due to the flexibility of being able to visiting a...Read More