Shinsaku Himeda

Nacimiento : 1916-11-19, Hyogo, Japan

Muerte : 1997-07-29

Historia

Shinsaku Himeda was a Japanese cinematographer from Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. Himeda dropped out of Teikoku Art University and started working as an assistant cameraman at the Nikkatsu Tamagawa studio in 1937. In 1949, he promoted to cinematographer.

Películas

A Paucity of Flying Dreams
Director of Photography
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They meet several more times and, each time, she is younger.
My Phoenix
Director of Photography
Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix
Those Swell Yakuza
Director of Photography
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
Abunai Deka
Director of Photography
When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms to keep them out of trouble.
Hachiko
Director of Photography
Basada en un hecho real. Hachiko es un perro de raza akita que es adquirido por el profesor Ueno, docente en la Facultad de Ingeniería Agrónoma de la Universidad de Tokio. Todas las mañanas, Hachiko acompaña a su amo hasta la estación de Shibuya, donde éste coge el tren para ir a su trabajo. Por las tardes, Hachiko regresa a Shibuya y espera a su amo a la puerta de la estación. Un día el profesor Ueno sufre un ataque cardíaco en el aula y fallece en el acto, y Hachiko acude día tras día a la estación para esperar a un amo que ya nunca más volverá.
River of Fireflies
Director of Photography
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.
Rouge
Director of Photography
A photographer for a weekly magazine becomes obsessed with Nami, a woman he first saw getting brutally raped in an underground porn video. After tracking her down, he begins an affair with her, initially unaware that she is also in an abusive relationship with Muraki, the man responsible for the video that started it all.
嵐を呼ぶ男
Director of Photography
Remake of the 1957 film "The Stormy Man".
To Trap a Kidnapper
Director of Photography
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
Why Not?
Director of Photography
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Path of the Beast
Director of Photography
17 year old Saki lives in a run-down hack with her mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life (she doesn't want to grow up like her mother), Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys. The sizzling Japanese Tatsumi Kumashiro’s erotic drama 'Shoujo Shofu: Kemonomichi' (aka 'Whore Girl - the Animal Trail' distributed internationally as 'Path of the Beast'), offers a venue for sex kitten Ayako Yoshimura to reveal choice areas of her nubile frame.
An Ocean to Cross
Director of Photography
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
La venganza es mía
Director of Photography
Enokizu es un criminal al que le encanta cometer atrocidades y despiadados crímenes. Toda la policía de Japón le persigue, pero siempre logra escapar. Un día Enokizu conoce a una chica que trabaja en un burdel, y los dos se enamoran...
Junko's Bliss
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Proof of the Man
Director of Photography
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Painful Bliss: Final Twist
Director of Photography
Kitayama intenta tener relaciones sexuales con Akemi. Mientras él logra ir a su habitación, su novio Kawasaki viene a buscarlo. Desafortunadamente es un yakuza.
Seishojo: hito natsu no keiken
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1976. Nobuyuki collects butterflies as a hobby. One day, while trying to catch a rare butterfly, he encounters a young woman...
Tsumatachi no gogo wa yori: kannō no ori
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1976.
Female Teacher: Cherry Boy Hunt
Director of Photography
Tokuko Watanabe plays Hikaru, a female teacher at an all boy's high school. Yata is a mysterious student who transfers from another school. Seemingly, he's the younger brother of a boy who com-mitted suicide because of an obsession with teacher Hikaru. Obviously, as these stories go, Yata wants to avenge his brother's death. So one day, he recruits two more boys and the three of them rape Hikaru on the roof of the school. At first, the violated teacher shrugs off the incident with a "boys will be boys" altitude. But then, when she realizes revenge was the motive, she stalks them before they can do any more damage.
Que C'est Triste Paris
Director of Photography
Japanese drama film.
Ecstasy of the Black Rose
Director of Photography
After his leading actress becomes pregnant and quits his sex film, Juzo becomes obsessed with finding a woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist’s office to star in the film instead.
Tokyo Emmanuelle
Director of Photography
After the director's message, "I visualize the romance of Roman Porn and I attempt to share that image," a loosely-connected series of softcore sex scenes unfolds. The plot concerns Kyoko, a young Japanese woman married to a man in France. When he abandons her, she returns to Japan. With her sexual appetite now at a high pitch, she engages in sexual escapades with a wide assortment of people, including old friends, both male and female, and an entire soccer team.
Light of Africa
Director of Photography
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Invitation of Lust
Director of Photography
Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...
Evening Primrose
Director of Photography
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.
La calle de la alegría
Director of Photography
Es la tarde anterior al día que los burdeles deben cerrar obligatoriamente, de acuerdo a la nueva ley, de 1958. En Kofukuya (literalmente, la casa que vende la felicidad) cinco prostitutas deciden celebrar el día. Erotismo, drama y comedia se mezclan al mismo tiempo, a la vez que la historia de cada mujer sale a la superficie.
Bitterness of Youth
Director of Photography
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
The Key
Director of Photography
A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard and hopes that his wife will find the key and read it.
The World of Geisha 2 – The Precocious Lad
Director of Photography
Shotaro, the son of a geisha house, is still merely a kid and is often told to spend the night in a room with geisha when the patron of a certain geisha takes over his own room. A precocious lad in the first places, he knows more about sex than many adults. He discovers he is old enough to make women pregnant and so his adventures begin, here, there and everywhere.
Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1974.
The World of Geisha
Director of Photography
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Director of Photography
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
Lovers Are Wet
Director of Photography
A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and begins to work as a movie reel carrier in a movie theater. Apparently this town is the hometown of Katsu, but no matter how many residents of the town ask, "Is it Katsu?" he just laughs. The wife of the cinema owner that has become involved with Katsu is interested in his past ...
Love and Death at Fuji Speedway
Director of Photography
The movie was inspired by real life test driver Yukio Fukuzawa, who on 12 February 1969 lost control of his Toyota 7 at Fuji Speedway near Nakahinata, Japan and fatally smashed into a signpost. In the movie Kei Kiyama’s pop singer character meets Tôru Minegishi’s doomed racer when he happens along as she’s throwing her own records into the sea. From there things get even cheerier.
Office Lady Diary: Affair of a She-Cat
Director of Photography
A diary of an office lady.
Excitement Class: Love Techniques
Director of Photography
Tormented by his first sexual stirrings, the teenager Isao dreams every night of his gym teacher Ikuko. He finally opens her heart but she rejects his advances. Frustrated, Isao invents all sorts of stratagies to disgust Ikuko´s fiance, a professor of chemistry in the same school. As his plan fails, he plans a radical solution...and the results turns out to be...
Ichijo's Wet Lust
Director of Photography
Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrested for indecency at her farewell performance. While she was active, she was both the rival and the model for many young strippers. Harumi was one of them. Ichijo Sayuri was the real-life queen of Osaka strippers who was arrested on her final performance.
Melancholy Flesh Business: Sensuous Zone
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Manatsu no Yoru no Jôji
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Delicate Skillful Fingers
Director of Photography
A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.
Wet Lips
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1972.
Dangerous Games
Director of Photography
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as it sweeps up the entire school. Brawls. Seduction. Yazuka. And more!
Men's Lifetime Dream-A Peep into A Women's Bathhouse
Director of Photography
Savage Wolf Pack
Director of Photography
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…
East China Sea
Director of Photography
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Neon taiheiki
Director of Photography
Front Row Life
Director of Photography
Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Komimasa Tanaka, the film tell the story of a strip-teaser, and her daughter who wishes to join her mother's profession.
The Will to Live
Director of Photography
The Black Sheep
Director of Photography
Japanese drama film.
I'll Never Cry!
Director of Photography
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world before her and has the determination to lead a normal life.
The Heart of Hiroshima
Director of Photography
One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two connect instantly and begin seeing each other every day. However, Iwai, Yukio’s foster parent, is concerned - Yukio had been exposed to the atomic bomb when he was four years old and had been showing symptoms of atomic radiation, hospitalizing him in the Genbaku Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Hospital. Unfortunately, nobody knows when the symptoms may return. When Yukio passes out from anemia during work, he decides to part with Kazue. A couple of days later, Yukio tells her of his destiny at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, but Kazue passionately encourages him.
The Pornographers
Director of Photography
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
When the Flowers Bloom
Director of Photography
Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread poverty and ignorance beyond her imagination.
A Chain of Islands
Director of Photography
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.
Dai nippon kosodoro den
Director of Photography
Japanese comedy film.
Deseos impuros
Director of Photography
Narra la historia de una gris y gorda ama de casa que vive en la pobreza con su pareja de hecho, su hijo de otra mujer y su madre. Cuando es violada por un ladrón, escapa a Japón en busca de una nueva vida con su agresor.
The Beautiful Teenager
Director of Photography
A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.
La mujer insecto
Director of Photography
Película que sigue la vida de Tome, mujer nacida en una familia de clase baja en 1918, que desde pequeña, sufre los maltratos de su padrastro. De joven, emigra de su pueblo natal para ir a trabajar a una fábrica donde mantiene una aventura con su jefe, y posteriormente ganarse la vida como criada y, finalmente, prostituta.
Distant Love
Director of Photography
A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
Danger Pays
Director of Photography
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....
The Lucky General
Director of Photography
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow
Director of Photography
En Kawaguchi, al norte de Tokio en la década de los 60, esta sencilla historia narra la vida de los pobres trabajadores de una fundición y sus familias, y los sueños de superación de una chica a través de la educación superior. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lost in the Sun
Director of Photography
A Killer Without a Grave
Director of Photography
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.
Cerdos y acorazados
Director of Photography
Kinta, un matón adolescente, está entusiasmado porque ha conseguido trabajo como supervisor de la piara de una base americana local, con el cual podrá desviar comida al mercado negro y conseguir unos buenos ingresos para su banda yakuza. Su novia Hiroku espera que deje la yakuza y consiga un trabajo honesto, aunque ella no sea un ejemplo de virtud, trabajando como prostituta. La trama sigue esta relación complicada, con el trasfondo de la corrupción, con el resultado del choque de las fuerzas de ocupación contra la pobreza y las aspiraciones del país nipón tras la guerra.
He Killed Dad
Director of Photography
The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.
Yami wo saku kuchibue
Director of Photography
A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake.
The Call of the Foghorn
Director of Photography
A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to investigate the matter himself, and finds there may be more to the story...
Wind of Volcano
Director of Photography
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
The Guitarist from the Sea
Director of Photography
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
Mi segundo hermano
Director of Photography
La película narra la historia de cuatro huérfanos que habitan en una ciudad minera empobrecida. El argumento tine como base el diario de una adolescente de 10 años zainichi (coreano-japonesa). Fue una de las primeras películas que trataron el tema de la identidad zainichi y sus luchas en Japón. (FILMAFFINITY)
Break Down that Wall
Director of Photography
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
A Man Explodes
Director of Photography
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.
Endless Desire
Director of Photography
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
Red Pier
Director of Photography
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
The Nun
Director of Photography
Small Rats of the Edo Town
Director of Photography
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling against the contradictions of feudal society.
Who's The Real Killer
Director of Photography
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Director of Photography
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
Frankie the Milkman
Director of Photography
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Director of Photography
Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere.
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Director of Photography
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Policeman's Diary
Director of Photography
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
母子鶴
Director of Photography
Shi no machi wo nogarete
Director of Photography
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.