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Taka Atsugi (厚木たか, born March 3, 1907 - 1998)was a Japanese film director, screen writer, and activist. She is well known for her translation of Paul Rotha's Documentary Film (1952) into Japanese.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Atsugi continued to write her autobiography until she died. However, there is not much personal information to be taken from it.^[1]

Born Matsue Okada,^[2] she adopted the name Taka Atsugi initially to avoid the Japanese police.

She was a member of the Proletarian Film League of Japan (aka Prokino).

Bibliography[edit]

A selection of Taka Atsugi's writings:

"Story-film no Yakugo ni Tsuite" ("On the Translation of Story-film"), (April 1940)

"Kiroku Eiga no Kyoko---Jijitsu wa Sono Mama 'Shinjitsu' de wa Nai" ("Fiction in Documentary Film---Simple 'Actuality' is not 'Truth'"), (November 1940)

"Yakusha no Atogaki" ("Translator's Afterword"), in Rotha, Paul. "Dokyumentarii Eiga" ("Documentary Film"), trans. Atsugi Taka (1960)

"Karada de Kaita Aru hobo no kiroku no Shinario" ("Written on the Body: The Scenario of Aru hobo no kiroku"), (March 8th, 1973)

"Deai to Wakare" ("Meeting and Parting"), (1981)

Autobiography:

"Josei Dokyumentarisuto no Kaiso" ("Reminiscences of a Female Documentarist"), (1991)^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Intersections: Depicting Women: The Memoirs and Documentary Films of Atsugi Taka". intersections.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
^ "Japanese Women Behind the Scenes - TAKA, Atsugi". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
^ Abe-Nornes (Mon May 25 00:02:10 EDT 1998). "Atsugi Taka". Retrieved 2019-10-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[:0-1] "Intersections: Depicting Women: The Memoirs and Documentary Films of Atsugi Taka". intersections.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-10-24.

[2] "Japanese Women Behind the Scenes - TAKA, Atsugi". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-10-24.

[3] Abe-Nornes (Mon May 25 00:02:10 EDT 1998). "Atsugi Taka". Retrieved 2019-10-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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