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The Proletarian Film League of Japan, or Prokino, was a left-wing film organization active in the late 1920s and early 1930s that focused on documenting workers' lives and demonstrations using small gauge films. It produced primarily documentaries and newsreels, but also ventured into fiction and animated films, with notable members including Akira Iwasaki and Genjū Sasa. The organization was ultimately suppressed by the police under the Peace Preservation Law, but many of its members later became influential in the Japanese film industry.

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The Proletarian Film League of Japan, or Prokino, was a left-wing film organization active in the late 1920s and early 1930s that focused on documenting workers' lives and demonstrations using small gauge films. It produced primarily documentaries and newsreels, but also ventured into fiction and animated films, with notable members including Akira Iwasaki and Genjū Sasa. The organization was ultimately suppressed by the police under the Peace Preservation Law, but many of its members later became influential in the Japanese film industry.

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Proletarian Film League of Japan


The Proletarian Film League of Japan (
, Nihon Puroretaria Eiga Dōmei), shortened to Prokino,
was a left-wing film organization active in the late 1920s and early
1930s in Japan. Associated with the proletarian arts movement in
Japan, it primarily used small gauge films such as 16mm film and
9.5mm film to record demonstrations and workers' lives and show
them in organized events or, using mobile projection teams, at
factories and mines. It also published its own journals. Most of its Prokino Symbol
films were documentaries or newsreels, but Prokino also made
fiction films and animated films. Prominent members included
Akira Iwasaki and Genjū Sasa, although in its list of supporters one finds such figures as
Daisuke Itō, Kenji Mizoguchi, Shigeharu Nakano, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Kiyohiko Ushihara,
Kogo Noda, Takiji Kobayashi, Sōichi Ōya, Fuyuhiko Kitagawa, Tokihiko Okada, Matsuo Kishi,
Kiyoshi Miki, Denmei Suzuki, Teppei Kataoka, and Shigeyoshi Suzuki.[1] The movement was
eventually suppressed by the police under the Peace Preservation Law, but many former
members became prominent figures in the Japanese documentary and fiction film industries.

References
1. Nornes, Abé Mark (2003). Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era through Hiroshima.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 35. ISBN 0-8166-4045-9.

External links
Prokino (http://www.yidff.jp/docbox/5/box5-2-e.html) - Documentary Box (Interview with
Katsuo Noto and Shizuo Komori by Mamoru Makino and Aaron Gerow)
Makino, Mamoru. "Rethinking the Emergence of the Proletarian Film League of Japan
(Prokino) (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/rethinking-the-emergence-of-the-prole
tarian-film-league.pdf?c=cjfs;idno=ess0001.0001.001)." In Praise of Film Studies: Essays in
Honor of Makino Mamoru. Eds. Aaron Gerow and Abé Mark Nornes (Kinema Club, 2001).
Prewar Proletarian Film Movements Collection (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cjfs/prewar.htm
l). Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. Full text of many Prokino
publications.
Prewar Proletarian Film Movements Collection: Films (https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/el
ectronic/facultyseries/list/series/prewar/films.php). Center for Japanese Studies, University
of Michigan. QuickTime copies of six Prokino films.

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