Mutsuo Naganuma

Mutsuo Naganuma ( Japanese長 沼 六 男Naganuma Mutsuo ; * 1945 in Nagano Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese cameraman .

In 1968 he joined the Shōchiku production studio and worked there as a camera assistant. The 1978 film Shin Ningen Shikkaku was his first independent work as a cameraman. In the 1980s he worked with the director Shinji Sōmai on his award-winning works Gyoei no mure and Hikaru onna .

In 1985 Genji Nakamura's Go for Break was released . Naganuma was responsible for the camera in the action film about a group of high school students who armed another high school to extort money, as well as the 26th Zatōichi film by director, leading actor, producer and screenwriter Shintaro Katsu . He was recognized for his work on Junya Sato's drama O-Roshiya-koku suimu-dan , for which he received his first nomination at the 1993 Japanese Academy Awards and his first win in the Best Cinematography category.

For Tamasaburo Bando's longing and for Yōji Yamadas Gakko he was nominated again the following year, but was not awarded. Gakko marked the first collaboration between him and Yōji Yamada. In addition to the three sequels of Gakko , for which he was nominated two more times at the Japanese Academy Awards, the samurai drama Samurai of the Twilight (2002) was also directed by Yamada . In 2003 he received the Japanese Academy Award and the camera prize at the Mainichi film competition for the camera at Samurai of Twilight , which, according to one critic, “[...] mostly from the typically Japanese lowlands, but just like that, without formal ambition [observes]” . In 2005 he was again nominated for the Japanese Academy Award for another Yamada's period film, The Hidden Blade , and Kiyoshi Sasabe's mystery film Hanochi .

In 2006 he took over the camera in Yōji Yamada's drama Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun about the relationship between a blind samurai and his wife. At the Japanese Academy Awards 2007 he was able to assert himself with Bushi no ichibun against, among others, Hideo Yamamoto and won his third Japanese Academy Award.

Filmography (selection)

• 1978: Shin Ningen Shikkaku
• 1983: Kigeki fushigi-na kuni: Nihon
• 1983: Gyoei no mure
• 1985: Seijo densetsu
• 1985: Go for Break ( V Madonna: daisenso )
• 1985: Kids
• 1987: Seishun kakeochi-hen
• 1987: Hikaru onna
• 1988: Crazy Boys
• 1989: Zatōichi
• 1992: O-Roshiya-koku suimu-dan
• 1993: Kekkon
• 1993: Gakko
• 1993: Longing ( Yume no onna )
• 1996: Gakko II
• 1998: Gakko III
• 1998: Ah haru
• 2000: Tsuribaka nisshi: Eleven
• 2000: 15-Sai: Gakko IV
• 2002: Samurai of the Dawn ( Tasogare Seibei )
• 2004: Hanochi
• 2004: Yudan taiteki
• 2004: The Hidden Blade ( Kakushi ken oni no tsume )
• 2006: Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun ( Bushi no ichibun )
• 2008: Kabei

Web links

• Mutsuo Naganuma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mutsuo Naganuma in the JMDb (Japanese)

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