Okazaki Kozo
Okazaki Kōzō ( Japanese岡 崎 宏 三; * 1919 in Tokyo , Japan ; † January 13, 2005 there ) was a Japanese cameraman . In his career he worked on over 140 films.
In the 1930s he joined the film company Ōizumi Satsueisho (大 泉 撮 影 所) as a camera assistant and learned there under Aoshima Junichirō (青島 順 一郎). In 1940 he was responsible for the camera for the first time in Fukada Shūzō's film Ao no Kinenbi (愛 の の 記念), as it should be for all subsequent films. His best-known works include Gosha Hideo's Goyokin (1969), Shinoda Masahiro's Buraikan (1970), Kobayashi Masaki's Inochi bō ni furō (1971) and John Berry's Bears Can't Stop (1978). In 1974 he and Duke Callaghan were responsible for the camera for Sydney Pollack Yakuza . Other directors he worked with included Imai Tadashi , Ichikawa Kon and Toyoda Shirō . With the latter he created over ten films together.
For Matsuyama Zenzo's Rokujo yukiyama tsumugi , he won the Blue Ribbon Award in 1966 . At the Mainichi film competition he was awarded four times - in 1970, 1972, 1975 and 1976 - for “best camera”. He was nominated for the Japanese Academy Award in 1978 for Die Alaska-Story and Nemunoki no uta ga kikoeru , in 1980 for Haitatsu sarenai santsu no tegami and in 1991 for Sensō to seishun .
He died of cancer in 2005 at the age of 86.
Web links
- Okazaki Kōzō in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry in the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
- Biography (japanese)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Okazaki, Kozo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 岡 崎 宏 三 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo , Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2005 |
| Place of death | Tokyo , Japan |