Noboru Shinoda

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Noboru Shinoda ( Japanese 篠 田 昇 , Shinoda Noboru ; born February 21, 1952 in Misato , Saitama , Japan ; † June 22, 2004 in Tokyo , Japan) was a Japanese cameraman .

He studied art history at Nihon University in Tokyo. From the early 1970s he worked as a cameraman for various films. In 1985 he was responsible for the camera of a movie for the first time at Shinji Sōmai's Love Hotel . For this film he was named Best Cinematographer at the Yokohama Film Festival . In the following years he worked for directors such as Sōgo Ishii , Katsuhiro Otomo and Kazuyuki Izutsu, among others .

In 1994 he started working with director Shunji Iwai . For his film Love Letter he received an award at the 1996 Yokohama Film Festival. For the crime drama Yentown - Swallowtail Butterfly with Chara and Ayumi Ito in the leading roles he was nominated for the 1997 Japanese Academy Award in the category Best Cinematography . In 2004 he worked as a cameraman next to Shunji Iwai's youth film Hana to Alice and in Isao Yukisada's commercially successful romantic drama Sekai no chūshin de, ai o sakebu, based on a bestseller by Kyōichi Katayama , in which Takao Ōsawa and Masami Nagasawa played the leading roles.

He suffered from liver failure and died of the disease in 2004 at the age of 52. He received the Japanese Academy Award for Best Camera posthumously, in February 2005, for Sekai no chūshin de, ai o sakebu .

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SURNAME Shinoda, Noboru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 篠 田 昇 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Misato , Saitama , Japan
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2004
Place of death Tokyo , Japan