Hiromitsu Karasawa

Movies

Tōkyō no josei
Cinematography
Rainbow Hill
Cinematography
A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa checks into the hotel in order to recuperate in a calm environment with fresh air. She is the mother of the store employee. The mother and daughter were separated due to the Kanto earthquake. The girl was practically raised by her older half brother.
Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket
Director of Photography
A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
A Tale of Thieves in War Time: Part 1 - Tiger and Wolf
Director of Photography
Story of a bandit king.
Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 2
Director of Photography
The story picks up from Part 1 as Enoken's young scion forsakes his wealth and takes a department store job – in drag and sometimes blackface – to prove to the girl of his dreams that he be a hard-working, serious man.
Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 1
Director of Photography
Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song.
I Am a Cat
Director of Photography
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Enoken's Kondo Isami
Director of Photography
Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.
Botchan
Director of Photography
1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Hotta Hayato
Cinematography
Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original film.
Jirokichi the Rat
Director of Photography
Jirokichi the Rat is wanted in Edo for robbing the mansions of the rich. While on the run, he falls for Osen, a girl who has been sold to a brothel by her criminal brother, Nikichi. When he goes to find Nikichi, Jirokichi immediately falls for Okino, a poor girl who is also under threat from Nikichi.
Zuku ôoka seidan mazo kaiketsu-hen
Director of Photography
Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One
Cinematography
A Japanese silent film
Man-Slashing Horse-Piercing Sword
Director of Photography
In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the local lord and substitute his own "heir", an orphan, in order to get control of the late lord's estate and rule as the impostor's "regent". However, a mysterious stranger appears and sets out to thwart the magistrate's plans and free the people from his oppressive rule.
Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode
Director of Photography
The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji Kunisada, the legendary bakuto (or gambler, the precursors to modern-day yakuza). One of the two remaining segments of Ito’s original four-hour trilogy, it depicts Chuji’s attempt to save the geisha Oshina, a rebellion against the rigid social structure of Edo Japan. With socialist overtones, it’s a passionate artifact of early Japanese film.
Gerou
Director of Photography