Kôzô Okazaki

Nacimiento : 1919-01-12, Tokyo, Japan

Muerte : 2005-01-13

Películas

I Love You
Director of Photography
To encourage a positive attitude, hearing-impaired mother Asako joins a theatrical troupe with her daughter Ai. Problems arise during rehearsals between the deaf and the hearing but they learn to work together by overcoming. On the public performance day, two deaf lovers are objected by their parents, which leads to Ai knowing Asako losing hearing when giving birth to Ai, As the curtain rises, Ai is found missing from the back stage…
War and Youth
Director of Photography
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt's tragic story.
Daireikai: Shindara dou naru
Cinematography
Father
Director of Photography
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
The Mountains of the Moon
Director of Photography
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him.
Big Joys, Small Sorrows
Director of Photography
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Family without a Dinner Table
Director of Photography
Cuenta lo que le puede pasar a una familia japonesa, cuando uno de sus hijos les avergüenza delante de toda la nación.
Children of Nagasaki
Director of Photography
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
It's All Right, My Friend
Director of Photography
An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.
El reto del samurái
Director of Photography
Un boxeador norteamericano es contratado por un japonés minsuválido para introducir en Japón una valiosa espada samurái. Todo parece marchar bien hasta que el protagonista es secuestrado por unos criminales que buscan la misma espada. El origen del problema es una contienda entre hermanos que ha enfrentado durante 37 años a dos facciones que luchan por la posesión de dos espadas gemelas.
Island of Loves
Director of Photography
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fell in love with a Japanese woman, staying in Japan for the rest of his life. Mixed in with the career and loves of Moraes is the history of Portugal at home and in its colonies.
Fuerzas especiales-z: Plan Lyon
Director of Photography
Un joven australiano (Capitán Page), enrolado en las Fuerzas Especiales Z, es nombrado para llevar a buen fín el "Plan Lyon". Con el fín de establecer una ruta de escapada hacia Sumatra. En una arriesgada aventura el comando que dirige el Capitán Page lleva acabo su peligrosa misión y distribuyen minas en el lugar donde se almacena cargamento militar y tanques japoneses. La playa rápidamente se convierte en un inmenso infierno y las 40.000 toneladas de material son destruidas. Tras este éxito, se planea un segundo ataque, pero las cosas van mal esta vez. Trece miembros de las Fuerzas Z resultarán muertos y los 10 restantes son capturados y encarcelados en Singapur, entre ellos Page. Aquí comienzan seis meses de torturas e interrogatorios y de caballerosos gestos de amistad entre presos y carceleros. Todos ellos, hombres de honor.
Abandoned
Cinematography
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned to human society.
The Lovers' Exile
Director of Photography
An adaptation of “The Courier for Hell” (“Meido no Hikyaku”) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725).
Children Drawing Rainbows
Director of Photography
Mariko Miyagi is back documenting the activities of disabled children from her own school, Nemunoki. This time, the whole documentary focuses itself on the powers of creativity and drawing.
Oh, My Son!
Director of Photography
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Glowing Autumn
Director of Photography
Una mujer joven está viviendo con un hombre de negocios mayor que tiene pasión animal por ella. Durante sus vacaciones en Kioto conocerá a un joven y guapo fotógrafo que supondrá un soplo de aire fresco.
La pandilla de Picarones va al Japon
Cinematography
En esta tercera (y última) entrega de la popular franquicia cinematográfica, Tony Curtis interpreta a Marvin Lazar, un cómplice, el promotor de poca monta que ve una oportunidad de hacer dinero en un club de béisbol. Después de que Lazar llega a un acuerdo con el equipo, todos van a Asia para competir con los campeones japoneses.
Love and Faith
Director of Photography
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.
The Alaska Story
Director of Photography
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.
The Fossil
Cinematography
Tajihei Kazuki es un magnate de los negocios de Tokio que se está muriendo. Su esposa, Yoshie, falleció hace un año y considera un viaje de negocios como vacaciones para alejarse de la vida cotidiana. Sin embargo, comienza a sentirse enfermo y le diagnostican cáncer terminal de estómago. Nadie más lo sabe, piensa en el suicidio, pero ese no es su estilo por lo que reevaluará su vida, sus valores, sus relaciones con familiares, colegas y amigos.
I Am a Cat
Director of Photography
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Director of Photography
Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
Yakuza
Director of Photography
La Yakuza es una mafia japonesa cuyo origen se remonta al siglo XVII. Utiliza los mismos métodos que las mafias occidentales y, como ellas, controla los negocios más turbios: la prostitución, el blanqueo de dinero, el contrabando, etc. Después de la Revolución Meijí (1868), que supuso la occidentalización del Japón, muchos samuráis pasaron a engrosar las filas de esta organización. Harry Kilman, un hombre que formó parte de las tropas de ocupación estadounidenses en Japón, vuelve a este país para ayudar a un amigo cuya hija ha sido secuestrada.
The Silk Tree Ballad
Director of Photography
Mariko Miyagi was an actress who had also written screenplays, produced, and directed films. She was also the director of Nemunoki Gakuen, a school for disabled children - the first ever such school in Japan. The school was founded by Miyagi in Shizuoka-ken in April 1968 using her own money. At Nemunoki, children and young adults with physical, intellectual or familial difficulties are gently encouraged to discover and develop their talents through such activities as painting, music, tea ceremony and dancing. The Silk Tree Ballad was the first in a series of documentaries, initially distributed by the ATG.
The Family
Director of Photography
Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.
El bosque petrificado
Director of Photography
Basada en una novela de Shintaro Ishihara, se trata de un drama sobre las complejas relaciones entre padres e hijos. Haruo pasa todo su tiempo trabajando en el hospital universitario, cuando se encuentra con una amiga de la infancia. Tienen un romance, y ella le convence para envenenar a su jefe y amante. Por otro lado lado, la madre de Haruo, que lo había abandonado, regresa para recuperar a su hijo perdido.
Slaughter in the Snow
Director of Photography
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?
The Twilight Years
Director of Photography
A woman looks after her father in law.
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Cinematography
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
The Wolves
Director of Photography
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
Inn of Evil
Cinematography
Unas barcas dedicadas al contrabando descienden por el río Nakagawa hasta una isla, donde se esconde la mercancía antes de venderla. Allí está la célebre y temida taberna de Fukagawa, cuartel general de una banda de peligrosos contrabandistas. Durante mucho tiempo, no sólo ha sido un lugar intocable para la policía, sino que ha contado incluso con su connivencia. Sin embargo, la llegada de nuevos policías constituye una amenaza para la impunidad de la banda, que se verá obligada a tomar precauciones.
幻の殺意
Director of Photography
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
Buraikan
Director of Photography
La historia se desarrolla durante el período de Mizuno Tadakuni (1793-1851). El Señor Mizuno era un moralista extremo y trató de proscribir cualquier cosa más o menos placentera. Su razonamiento era que cosas como obras teatrales, novelas populares, comidas caras, pinturas, etc ... contribuían a la decadencia de la moral nacional.
Tiranía – Goyokin
Director of Photography
Los barcos del Shogun pasan cargados de oro por la costa de Sabai. Tres años atrás, treinta pescadores con sus mujeres y familias desaparecieron en ese mismo lugar después de haber encontrado el oro de un barco hundido. Nunca se supo que pasó con ellos, así que se solía decir que fueron “llevados por los dioses”. Magobei es un samurai que sabe muy bien lo que sucedió aquel día, por lo que los responsables tratarán de deshacerse de él.
Hymn to a Tired Man
Director of Photography
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un soldado duramente golpeado por un oficial superior se queda sordo. Después de la guerra, se convierte en inventor y se encuentra a su antiguo oficial en la oficina de patentes. Pronto descubrirá que sigue siendo un hombre violento.
O Luna, My Pony!
Director of Photography
Based on the hit song, the story involves a young boy and girl who leave their home in Hokkaido to come and live in Tokyo.
A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
Cinematography
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
The Maid Story
Director of Photography
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
喜劇 とんかつ一代
Director of Photography
Ensemble comedy.
This Madding Crowd
Director of Photography
Master Fencer Sees the World
Cinematography
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.
Hito mo arukeba
Director of Photography
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Temptation on Glamour Island
Director of Photography
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
The Princess of Badger Palace
Director of Photography
Japanese fantasy film.
Birth of Romance
Cinematography
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
The Paradise Island Story
Director of Photography
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
Gale Winds! Tengu Karama
Cinematography
The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.
Revenge of Jorurizaka 1: Attack at Onibushi Pass
Cinematography
Anatahan
Camera Operator
Josef von Sternberg dirigió, fotografió, escribió el guión y puso voz al narrador de esta película. En junio de 1944, siete soldados japoneses naufragan y van a parar a una remota isla del Pacífico (An-ta-han), donde pasan siete años. Los únicos habitantes de la isla son el vigilante de una plantación abandonada y su atractiva mujer. Pronto, la disciplina desparece y se impone la lucha por el poder y por la mujer.
Anatahan
Director of Photography
Josef von Sternberg dirigió, fotografió, escribió el guión y puso voz al narrador de esta película. En junio de 1944, siete soldados japoneses naufragan y van a parar a una remota isla del Pacífico (An-ta-han), donde pasan siete años. Los únicos habitantes de la isla son el vigilante de una plantación abandonada y su atractiva mujer. Pronto, la disciplina desparece y se impone la lucha por el poder y por la mujer.
I Was a Prisoner in Siberia
Director of Photography