Akira Shiizuka
Akira Shiizuka ( Japanese椎 塚 彰Shiizuka Akira ; also 椎 塚 影; * 1935 in Niigata , Japan ) is a Japanese cameraman .
Life
Together with Shunichi Kajima , he made the documentary Yakuza zankoku hiroku - Kataude setsudan in the 1970s . The film is his only directing and scripting work so far; at the same time he also acted as a cameraman. His next work was another documentary, The Glacier Fox, directed by Koreyoshi Kuraharas . The film, which depicts the life of a fox family in Hokkaidō , was shot with five other cameramen between 1974 and 1976 and was released in Japanese cinemas in 1978.
After working as a cameraman for Shigeyuki Yamane's literary adaptation Ōgon no inu (1979) for the first time, he worked with director Koreyoshi Kurahara again in 1983 for an animal film. Taro and Jiro in Antarctica describes the struggle for survival of two dogs in Antarctica and became the most commercially successful Japanese film of the year in Japan in 1983. Critics praised Shiizuka's camera work, and he was nominated for Best Cinematography at the Japanese Academy Awards . He was awarded the camera prize at the Mainichi film competition .
He finally won the Japanese Academy Award in 1989 for the Sino-Japanese co-production The Blood of the Silk Road . The multiple award-winning historical drama was directed by Junya Satos . In 1991 he turned back to the animal film genre and worked as a cameraman on Yokihiro Sawadas Flecki, my friend . The children's film , which according to critics is embedded in impressive nature shots, is about a ten year old who finds a young deer without a mother in the forest and raises it.
In the early 1990s, he was working on films that were released direct to VHS and soon retired from the film business.
Filmography (selection)
- 1976: Yakuza zankoku hiroku - Kataude setsudan
- 1978: The Glacier Fox ( Kita-kitsune Monogatari )
- 1979: Ōgon no inu
- 1981: Taiyō no kizuato
- 1983: Taro and Jiro in Antarctica ( Nankyoku Monogatari )
- 1984: Tsuki no yoru, hoshi no chō
- 1985: Haru no kane
- 1988: The Blood of the Silk Road ( Dun-Huang )
- 1991: Flecki, my friend ( Kojika Monogatari )
- 1993: Minato
Web links
- Akira Shiizuka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Akira Shiizuka in the JMDb (Japanese)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shiizuka, Akira |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 椎 塚 彰; 椎 塚 影 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niigata , Japan |