Fuyuhiko Kitagawa

Tokyo University.^[2] He began publishing his own poetry in Manchukuo in 1924 and his work was influenced by that colonial context.^[1] His work was praised by Riichi Yokomitsu,^[3] and he became a prominent figure in modernist poetry in Japan, pursuing especially prose poetry. Kitagawa was also a well-known film critic, one who especially praised the work of Mansaku Itami (the father of Juzo Itami), calling it a new, realistic "prose cinema" (sanbun eiga) in opposition to the old "poetic cinema" (inbun eiga) of Sadao Yamanaka, Daisuke Itō, and others. He was a champion of neorealism in the postwar era.^[2]