Akira Iwasaki

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Akira Iwasaki (岩崎昶, Iwasaki Akira) (18 November 1903 – 16 September 1981) was a prominent left-wing Japanese

Prokino), where he acted as not only the theoretical brain of the movement alongside Genjū Sasa, but also as a filmmaker.[3] When Prokino was effectively eliminated by police oppression under the Peace Preservation Law, Iwasaki continued his critical activities, becoming involved in the Yuibutsuron Kenkyūkai with such thinkers as Jun Tosaka, but was eventually arrested in 1940, in part for his opposition to the Film Law, which authorized increased government control of the film industry.[4] He was the only film critic arrested by the ideological police during the war.[5] After his release, he worked for a time at the Tokyo office of the Manchukuo Film Association thanks to the help of Kan'ichi Negishi
.

After Japan's defeat in

Emperor Hirohito.[8] While continuing to work as a film critic from the 1950s on, including pursuing a vigorous debate on the nature of cinematic realism with Taihei Imamura, Iwasaki helped produce some of the independent films made by Tadashi Imai and Satsuo Yamamoto after many left-wingers were expelled from the major studios in the Red Purge
.

In 1974, he was a member of the jury at the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.[9]

References

  1. ^ Gerow, pp. 100–101.
  2. ^ Iwasaki Akira chosho, Japanese Wikipedia
  3. ^ Nornes, Japanese Documentary Film, pp. 19–47.
  4. ^ Nornes, Japanese Documentary Film, pp. 125–130.
  5. ^ Iwamoto, Kenji. "Film Criticism and The Study of Cinema In Japan: A Historical Survey (PDF) Archived 2011-08-13 at the Wayback Machine". Iconics vol. 1 (1987), p. 134. Accessed 28 November 2009.
  6. ^ Nornes, Abé Mark. "Production Materials from The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Archived 2010-05-03 at the Wayback Machine". Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Accessed 28 November 2009.
  7. Huffington Post
    . 10 November 2009. Accessed 28 November 2009
  8. ^ Hirano, pp. 104–145.
  9. ^ "Berlinale 1974: Juries". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 6 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-02.

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