Actor

Kazuo Miyagawa

Camera

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Movies: 77Series: 0Crew credits: 76

TMDB ID: 7461

IMDb ID: nm0594335

Known for: Camera

Born: February 25, 1908

Died: August 7, 1999

Age: 91

Place of birth: Kyoto, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1938 - 1989

Years active: 52

Average TMDB rating: 7.21

Wikidata: Q2025121

Also known as

宮川一夫

Other jobs

Director of Photography (65)Cinematography (11)

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Biography

Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川一夫 Miyagawa Kazuo, February 25, 1908 – August 7, 1999) was an acclaimed Japanese cinematographer. 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 on films by major directors Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, and Kon Ichikawa, such as Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Floating Weeds (1959) and the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965) respectively. Miyagawa is regarded as having invented the cinematographic technique known as bleach bypass, for Ichikawa's 1960 film Her Brother.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Kazuo Miyagawa.