is a Japanese
cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the c ...
. His work has mostly been in the action genre, but his first feature film was as an assistant on ''
The Pornographers'' by
Shohei Imamura. He worked on early
Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent a ...
straight-to-video films such as ''
Lady Hunter'' and ''
A Human Murder Weapon'', and then resumed working with Imamura as chief cinematographer for some of his last films such as ''
Unagi'' and ''
Dr. Akagi''. He also did the cinematography for the 2013 TV series ''Neko Zamurai'' starring
Kazuki Kitamura.
Awards
He received a Japan Film Technical Award (Nihon Eiga GijutsushÅ) from the Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan for the cinematography for ''
Unagi'' in 1997, and won the
Japan Movie Critics Award for best cinematography in 2008 for ''
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Filmography
References
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Japanese cinematographers
1949 births
Living people