Shigeru Komatsubara

Birth : 1949-01-01,

History

Shigeru Komatsubara (小松原 茂, Komatsubara Shigeru, born 1949) is a Japanese cinematographer.

Movies

Days with You
Director of Photography
Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls in love, unfortunately he suffers from a serious illness.
Oka wo koete
Director of Photography
Aoi Hitomi to Nuage
Director of Photography
Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist.
The Graduates
Director of Photography
The experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the last year leading to graduation.
Love Tomato
Director of Photography
Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money from his Agricultural Association and travels to the Philippines for the wedding - only to discover that it was all a scam. Stranded in Manila with no money, Masao ends up staying to work. One day he meets a beautiful farmer's daughter, Christina (Alice Dixson), reawakening not only his chances for love, but also his love for farming.
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Director of Photography
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Jorogumo
Director of Photography
Moonlight Whispers
Director of Photography
Satsuki and Takuya are high school students who meet at kendo practice, where they bash one another with wooden swords. They begin an awkward romance, but Takuya soon reveals a masochistic side to his desires. He has been stealing Satsuki's soiled clothing and secretly surveilling her while imagining her subjugation of him. Disgusted, Satsuki rejects him but he persists, and she discovers her own pleasure in manipulating and humiliating him.
Dr. Akagi
Cinematography
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Another Lonely Hitman 2
Director of Photography
The Eel
Cinematography
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for the eel he "befriended" in prison. One day he finds the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him of his wife. She starts to work at his shop, but he doesn't let her become close to him.
Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers
Cinematography
A special agent of the Tokyo Police has been given the assignment of assassinating a group of crime bosses. Soon afterwards, she encounters the hitman the crime bosses have sent to kill her. After talking together, they discover that they are equally reluctant to carry out their assignments. They are pushed onward by their respective bosses, however, until they must both decide where their loyalties truly lie.
Toriko: Eyes of a Rapist
Director of Photography
A dangerous lunatic going around breaking into the apartments of various women and brutally raping and killing them while wearing a black outfit and black bondage mask.One night he breaks into the apartment of a care worker and rapes her.He doesn't kill her though as he finds that he falls in love with her.So instead,he returns on different nights and rapes her time and time again...pretty rough life for her considering she was gang-raped when she was a schoolgirl(shown in flashbacks).She falls in love with the detective investigating the case,but the rapist is still on the loose.
Kyouju Luger P08
Cinematography
A man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.
Lady Hunter: Prelude to Murder
Director of Photography
A female ex-soldier comes out of retirement to put a stop to the kidnapping of a young boy who is being used a political pawn.
Eyecatch Junction
Cinematography
A group of female police officers form a secret detective division called Eyecatch Junction. They go undercover in a prostitute racket to investigate the murder of a young woman.
The Ballad of Narayama
Director of Photography
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.