Kazuo Miyagawa

Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川 一夫, Miyagawa Kazuo, February 25, 1908—August 7, 1999) is generally recognized as having been one of the finest Japanese cinematographers. Miyagawa is best known for his tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon (1950), the first of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. He also worked, to great effect, on films by major directors Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Kon Ichikawa, such as Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Floating Weeds (1959) and Tokyo Olympiad (1965) respectively. Miyagawa is regarded as having invented the cinematographic technique known as bleach bypass, for Kon Ichikawa's 1960 film Her Brother. Selected: