Kazuo Miyagawa

Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川 一夫, Miyagawa Kazuo, February 25, 1908 – August 7, 1999) was an acclaimed Japanese cinematographer.

Miyagawa is best known for his tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon (1950), the first of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

He also worked on films by major directors Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Kon Ichikawa, such as Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Floating Weeds (1959) and the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965) respectively.

Miyagawa is regarded as having invented the cinematographic technique known as bleach bypass, for Ichikawa's 1960 film Her Brother.

Selected filmography

• Singing Lovebirds (鴛鴦歌合戦, Oshidori utagassen, 1939)
• Rashomon (羅生門, Rashōmon, 1950)
• Ugetsu (雨月物語, Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953)
• A Geisha (祇園囃子, Gion Bayashi, 1953)
• The Woman in the Rumor (噂の女, Uwasa no onna, 1954)
• Sansho the Bailiff (山椒大夫, Sanshō Dayũ, 1954)
• The Crucified Lovers (近松物語, Chikamatsu Monogatari, 1954)
• Street of Shame (赤線地帯, Akasen chitai, 1956)
• The Love of a Princess (朱雀門, Suzakumon, 1957)
• Conflagration (1958)
• Enjo (炎上, Enjō, 1958)
• The Gay Masquerade (弁天小僧, Benten Kozō, 1958)
• Odd Obsession (鍵, Kagi, 1959)
• Floating Weeds (1959)
• Scar Yosaburo (切られ与三郎, Kirare Yosaburō, 1960)
• Her Brother (1960)
• Yojimbo (用心棒, Yōjinbō, 1961)
• Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (座頭市千両首, Zatōichi senryō-kubi, 1964)
• Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック, Tōkyō Orinpikku, 1965)
• Zatoichi's Vengeance (座頭市の歌が聞える, Zatōichi no uta ga kikoeru, 1966)
• Zatoichi the Outlaw (座頭市牢破り, Zatōichi rōyaburi, 1967)
• Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
• Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
• Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
• MacArthur's Children (瀬戸内少年野球団, Setouchi Shōnen Yakyū-dan, 1984)

External links

• Kazuo Miyagawa at the Internet Movie Database