Genjū Sasa

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…