Atsugi Taka and Prokino

[Aaron Gerow]

David Hopkins asked,

>Can you recommend any good source(s) for information/commentary on this 
>group? I'm a big fan of Taisho (and early Showa) proletarian literature, and 
>many stories seem very cinematic in structure and technique.

One easy to access source is an interview Makino Mamoru and I did with 
Noto Setsuo and Komori Shizuo, two other surviving Prokino members, in 
_Documentary Box_ No. 5.  It is on the net at the following URL:

http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/ff/box/box5/en/b5en-2.html

Abe Markus Nornes's dissertation would be another great source in English.

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