Yoshio Kitagawa

Películas

Boy Sprouted
Cinematography
A boy who can't eat a tomato was pushed by his mother to overcome his least favorite. When he swallowed it, something sprouted from his own body. The boy doubted the tomato he ate and visited a tomato farm to find out what happened to him. There he met a scary farmer and ran away. The mother still tries to make her son able to eat a tomato. This script was generated from AI, shot by alumnus of the national film school as a cutting-edge R&D project.
El tercer encuentro
Cinematography
Tadashi Nohara, guionista habitual del director ganador del Oscar Ryusuke Hamaguchi ("Drive My Car)" debuta en la dirección con este sofisticado drama sobre un grupo de amigos y los secretos que esconden. Un grupo de amigos y familiares quedan interconectados a medida que se enamoran y se desenamoran, cruzan las líneas entre ser amigos y ser socios e interrogan sus propios sentimientos y deseos con la esperanza de encontrar algún grado de felicidad esquiva.
Heaven Is Still Far Away
Director of Photography
Yuzo, a mosaic engineer for porn videos, lives under the same roof as Mitsuki, a high school student with whom he leads a peculiar life. One day, Yuzo receives a phone call from Mitsuki's sister.
Happy Hour
Cinematography
Cuatro mujeres. Todas de unos 30 años. Tres de ellas casadas, una divorciada. Pueden contarse cualquier cosa entre ellas. O al menos eso es lo que piensan. Un día, tras perder el juicio de divorcio, una de ellas lo abandona todo y desaparece. Las otras tres deben echar un vistazo a sus propias vidas.
Happy Hour
Director of Photography
Cuatro mujeres. Todas de unos 30 años. Tres de ellas casadas, una divorciada. Pueden contarse cualquier cosa entre ellas. O al menos eso es lo que piensan. Un día, tras perder el juicio de divorcio, una de ellas lo abandona todo y desaparece. Las otras tres deben echar un vistazo a sus propias vidas.
Storytellers
Director of Photography
The third part of a trilogy focusing on the Tohoku region that is comprised of dialogues with victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Ideas on how to share experiences of the disaster with future generations, a challenge touched upon in the previous films The Sound of Waves and Voices from the Waves, is found in folk tales from the region. Co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke.
The Sound of Waves
Director of Photography
The first part of a trilogy focusing on the northeast Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Impromptu interviews were carried out with disaster victims mainly along the Sanriku Coast, which had been ravaged by tsunamis several times prior to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, and makes emotional discoveries within dialogues between close-knit people including families and workmates.
Intimacies
Director of Photography
Follows the acting course completion of the stage play “Shinmitsusa” for the ENBU Seminar (acting school). The first half of the 4-hour film contains the process of making the stage play, and the second half is the actual stage performance.
Kingyo
Director of Photography
A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid. As they both walk through the streets of modern Tokyo, the man and the young woman gradually speak of a past they both share, and ultimately a painful love triangle that continues to haunt them. A poetic rumination in love, memories and loss told almost entirely with split screens.
from DARK
Director of Photography
Under Professor Furuchi, Kawano has been engaged in the development of a new vaccine against the unidentified substance which fell from outer space. People infected with it begin to attack other human beings for blood. The one and only way to prevent the attacks of the infected people is getting vaccinated and becoming one of them. Kawano has volunatrily chosen to be infected for absorbing in the research. His girlfriend Taeko is worried about him and visits the laboratory. She tries to rescue Kawano in cooperation with his friend Sawamura, a medical practitioner in town: meanwhile, the mysterious black substance has started pouring down from the sky...