Born in 1933. After stints at Miraisha and Gendaishichoshinsha, he worked as a freelance editor and critic. Following his involvement in Jiritsugakko (The School of Autonomy), Tokyo kodo sensen (Tokyo Action Front) and Revolto-sha (The Revolution Press), he formed Hihyo sensen (Critical Front) with Adachi Masao, Sasaki Mamoru, Hiraoka Masaaki and Aikura Hisato, launching new film journal Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism). In the process he co-produced A.K.A. Serial Killer (1969). The radical Marxist “landscape theory” that emerged from this film caused considerable controversy. Major works include Teroru no kairo (Circuit of Terror, San-ichi Shobo, 1969), Bara to Mumeisha: Matsuda Masao Eigaronshu (Roses and Anonymity: Essays on Film by Matsuda Masao) (Haga Shoten, 1970) and Fukei no shimetsu (The Extinction of Landscape, Tabatashoten, 1971).