Kazuo Miyagawa

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kazuo Miyagawa ( Japanese. 宮 川 一夫 , actually: 宮 川 一 雄 , both Miyagawa Kazuo ; born February 25, 1908 in Kyōto , Japan ; † August 7, 1999 in Tokyo , ibid) was a Japanese cameraman who was "for several decades the most important image designer of the domestic post-war cinemas ”.

Live and act

Miyagawa trained in Japanese ink painting before joining the film industry in 1925. First he worked in the laboratory of the Nikkatsu production company in Kyoto . In 1930 he received his first job as a simple cameraman, five years later he was allowed to work as chief cameraman for the first time. Out of the abundance of Miyagawa's work, the pictorial designs of some of the top productions by important directors such as Kenji Mizoguchi , Akira Kurosawa , Yasujiro Ozu and Kon Ichikawa stand out. Impressed by the play of light and shadow in Expressionist film art in Germany in the 1920s, Kazuo Miyagawa demonstrated his great talent for creating moods. The bleaching effect, which he helped to develop and which Ichikawas Ototo used for the first time in 1960, also had some significance in Miyagawa's pictorial compositions.

His camera work on Kurosawa's masterpiece Rashomon - The Lustwäldchen brought the Japanese film world recognition for the first time in 1950. Miyagawa's later works, such as Ugetsu - Tales under the Rain Moon , The Legend of the Master of Scroll Pictures , Kagi and Yojimbo - The Bodyguard , which were able to assert themselves on the international market, ensured the great reputation of Japanese films of the 1950s and 1960s. Most recently, he mainly photographed the works of director Masahiro Shinoda, who is celebrated as a “young and wild” . With a German-Japanese co-production filmed in Berlin in 1988, the 80-year-old image designer ended his career after about 135 films he had shot. Kazuo Miyagawa, who was honored with a wealth of prizes for his cinematic achievements from 1953 until his death, also taught at the Osaka Art School .

Filmography

  • 1935: Ochiyo-gasa
  • 1936: Onshuh junrueita
  • 1937: Ochiyo toshigoro
  • 1937: Hiryuh no ken
  • 1938: Yami no kagebushi
  • 1938: Jigoku no mushi
  • 1939: Ibaragi ukon
  • 1939: Rougoku no hannajome
  • 1940: Miyamoto Musashi
  • 1941: Kurama tengu: Satsuma no misshi
  • 1942: Mampu hattenshi: Umi no gouzuku
  • 1943: Muhumatsu no issho
  • 1944: Dohyou matsuri
  • 1944: Kakute kamikaze wa fuku
  • 1945: Tukai suiko-den
  • 1946: Tebukuro o nugasu otoko
  • 1946: Sushi gekijou
  • 1947: Akuma no kanpai
  • 1948: Kurun kaidou
  • 1948: Otoko o sabaku onna
  • 1949: Nizuma kaigi
  • 1949: Hebihime douchuh
  • 1950: Ai no sanga
  • 1950: Rashomon - The Pleasure Grove ( Rashomon )
  • 1951: Oyu-sama
  • 1951: Umagatsuji no ketto
  • 1952: Nishijin no shumai
  • 1952: Suttobi kago
  • 1953: Ugetsu - Tales under the rain moon ( Ugetsu monogatari )
  • 1953: Yukubo
  • 1953: Two geishas ( Gion-bayashi )
  • 1954: Sansho Dayu - A life without freedom ( Sansho dayu )
  • 1954: The legend of the master of scroll paintings ( Chikamatsu monogatari )
  • 1955: Jinanbou garasu
  • 1955: The Taira samurai clan ( Shin haike monogatari )
  • 1956: Yoru no kawa
  • 1956: The Road to Shame ( Akasen chitai )
  • 1957: Yoru no cho
  • 1957: Meido no kaoyaku
  • 1958: The Temple of the Golden Hall ( Enjo )
  • 1958: Benten kozu
  • 1959: Kagi ( Kagi )
  • 1959: Farewell at dawn ( Ukigusa )
  • 1960: Bonshi
  • 1960: Ototo
  • 1961: Yojimbo - The Bodyguard ( Yojimbo )
  • 1961: Konki
  • 1961: Akumyo
  • 1962: Hakai
  • 1963: Jokei kazoku
  • 1963: Zuhei monogatari
  • 1964: Tokyo 1964 ( Tokyo Orinpukku ) (Olympic documentary)
  • 1964: Zeni no odori
  • 1965: Akai shuriken
  • 1965: Akumyo muteki
  • 1966: The Tattoo ( Irezumi )
  • 1966: Akumyo zakura
  • 1967: Chisana tobosha kikoeru
  • 1967: Aru koroshiya
  • 1968: Tomuraishi tachi
  • 1968: Koudoukan hamonjou
  • 1969: Shirikurae magoichi
  • 1969: Shiriboe sonichi
  • 1970: Zatouichi to Yojimbo
  • 1971: Chinmoku
  • 1972: Kozure ohkami
  • 1973: Goyukiba: Kamisori Hanzo jigokuzeme
  • 1974: Akumyo nawabari arashi
  • 1975: Yoba
  • 1977: Hanare goze orin
  • 1979: Kagemusha - The Warrior's Shadow ( Kagemusha ) (camera advice only)
  • 1980: Double suicide in Sonezaki ( Sonezaki shinjuh )
  • 1981: Akuryo-to
  • 1983: MacArthur's children ( Setouchi shounen yakyu-dan )
  • 1985: The Forbidden Love of the Samurai ( Yari no Gonza )
  • 1988: the dancer

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 485.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 485.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Miyagawa, Kazuo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 宮 川 一夫 (Japanese, pseudonym); 宮 川 一 雄 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Japan
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1999
Place of death Tokyo , Japan