Taka Atsugi(1907-1998)
- Writer
Born Okada Matsue in Gunma Prefecture Japan she turned to documentary film making upon attending a meeting of the Proletarian Film League of Japan a.k.a. Prokino. A life-long supporter of leftist causes and resister to military she had to adopt an alias in order to hide her identity from the Japanese police and government, which were censoring dissent. She worked on documentaries on militarism, conversion of civilian factories to military ones and focused on feminist issues. She published her autobiography, called Memoirs Of A Female Documentary Maker (Josei Dokymenterisuto) in 1991.