Kōzō Shibazaki

Kōzō Shibazaki ( Japanese 柴 崎 幸 三 Shibazaki Kōzō ; * 1958 in Tochigi , Japan ) is a Japanese cameraman .

In 1979 he made his début as a cameraman with the black and white film Waltz wa beniki yamino uchide . It was not until the 1990s that he was again responsible for cinematography for cinema films, including Hideyuki Hirayama's Za Chugaku kyoshi and the first two Gakkō no kaidan films. The third part of Gakkō no kaidan , which was published in 1997, was directed by Shusuke Kaneko , with whom he had already worked in 1994 on the drama Mainichi ga Natsuyasumi based on a manga by Yumiko Ōshima .

He won the Japanese Academy Award in the Best Camera category for Ai o kou hito , another collaboration with Hideyuki Hirayama. The drama, which has won the most important Japanese film awards and is based on a novel by Harumi Shinoda published in 1992 , is about a young Japanese woman who goes to Taiwan to meet her father's family.

This was followed by the science fiction films Juvenile (2000) and Returner - Kampf um die Zukunft (2002) - both directed by Takashi Yamazakis - as well as the romantic drama Laundry with Yosuke Kubozuka in the lead role. Shibazaki received the camera award at the Yokohama Film Festival for the comedy Warau kaeru and the crime film Out , both released in 2002 and directed by Hirayama . In 2005 the third collaboration with Takashi Yamazaki came about, Always san-chōme no yūhi . The critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning family drama earned the cameraman his second Japanese Academy Award and the camera prize at the Mainichi film competition .

Filmography (selection)

• 1979: Waltz wa beniki yamino uchide
• 1992: Za Chugaku kyoshi
• 1994: Mainichi ga Natsuyasumi
• 1995: Gakkō no kaidan
• 1996: Gakkō no kaidan 2
• 1997: Gakkō no kaidan 3
• 1998: Ai o kou hito
• 2000: Juvenile
• 2002: Laundry
• 2002: Warau kaeru
• 2002: Returner - Fight for the Future ( Ritānā )
• 2002: Out
• 2002: Ashita ga aru sa: The Movie
• 2003: Shoro Nagashi
• 2004: 69
• 2004: Lady Joker
• 2005: Scrap Heaven
• 2005: Always san-chōme no yūhi
• 2007: Always zoku san-chōme no yūhi
• 2010: Space Battleship Yamato

Web links

• Kōzō Shibazaki in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kōzō Shibazaki in the JMDb (Japanese)