is a Japanese cinematographer. 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 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 Gijutsushō) 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 Koi suru tomato.
Filmography Year Title Director1983The Ballad of NarayamaShohei Imamura1991Toppū! Minipato tai - Aikyacchi JankushonTakashi Miike1991Lady Hunter: Prelude To MurderTakashi Miike1992A Human Murder WeaponTakashi Miike1995Bad Guy BeachShō Aikawa1996Zero Woman: Assassin LoversMasahide Kuwabara1997UnagiShohei Imamura1998Dr. AkagiShohei Imamura1999Moonlight WhispersAkihiko Shiota2001Warm Water Under a Red BridgeShohei Imamura200613 no TsukiHiroyuki Ikeuchi2007Kyonyu wo business ni shita otokoTakeshi Watanabe2007Lemon no KoroYuki Iwata2008Oka wo koeteBanmei Takahashi2008DōsōkaiTakayuki Takuma2009Dōtei HōrōkiYûichi Onuma2013AragureHajime Gonno2013JinjinDaiki Yamada2013Tobe! DakotaSeiji Aburatani
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