Asakazu Nakai

Asakazu Nakai

Nacimiento : 1901-08-29, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Muerte : 1988-02-28

Historia

Asakazu Nakai (Japanese: 中井朝一; August 29, 1901 – February 28, 1988) was a Japanese cinematographer, born in Kobe. He worked on a dozen films with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work in the film Ran (1985). In 1950 he won the award for Best Cinematography at the Mainichi Film Concours for Stray Dog.

Perfil

Asakazu Nakai

Películas

Ran
Director of Photography
En el Japón medieval, el poderoso señor Hidetora decide abdicar y repartir sus dominios entre sus tres hijos. El menor considera que la idea es absurda y sólo servirá para causar problemas. Su padre, enfurecido, lo deshereda. Muy pronto descubrirá su error: la ambición hará que sus hijos mayores se enfrenten por el poder en una cruenta guerra. Se inspira en el drama de Shakespeare "El rey Lear".
A. K. (Akira Kurosawa)
Self
En 1985, Chris Marker viajó a Japón para asistir al rodaje de «Ran», dirigido por Akira Kurosawa. Marker analiza el progreso del rodaje; la infinita paciencia de un equipo bajo las órdenes de un director meticuloso hasta el más mínimo detalle; la mezcla antitética de lo moderno con lo tradicional; de lo real con lo ficticio; de la vida con el cine… y la literatura.
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
Director of Photography
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.
Dersu Uzala (El cazador)
Director of Photography
Un explorador del ejérciro conoce a un hombre de la tribu Goldi en los bosques no mapeados de Rusia. Con el tiempo, se crea un vínculo duradero entre los dos hombres: uno civilizado en el sentido usual, y el otro que tiene por hogar los bosques glaciares de Siberia.
Wakare no uta
Director of Photography
Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.
Take Care, Red Riding Hood
Director of Photography
A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.
Konto 55: The Weaknesses of the Century
Director of Photography
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
The Daphne
Director of Photography
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.
Barbarroja
Director of Photography
El joven doctor Yasuoto regresa a su pueblo después de estudiar en Nagasaki, pero, en cuanto llega, sufre una gran desilusión: en lugar de ser nombrado médico del shogun lo envían a una clínica que cuenta con muy pocos recursos y está dirigida por un médico apodado "Barbarroja".
Las más famosas estafas del mundo
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Film por episodios que reúne a directores tan distintos como los franceses Claude Chabrol y Jean-Luc Godard, el italiano Ugo Gregoretti, el japonés Hiromichi Horikawa y el franco-polaco Roman Polanski. Cada uno de ellos relata una estafa supuestamente célebre y real.
El infierno del odio
Director of Photography
En un momento crucial de su vida financiera, Gondo, un hombre de negocios, recibe la noticia de que su hijo ha sido secuestrado, y el rescate exigido es una cantidad de dinero similar a la que necesita para cerrar una importante negociación. Gondo está dispuesto a pagar el rescate hasta que comprende que los secuestradores se han equivocado y se han llevado al hijo del chófer. Ahora deberá decidir si el dinero es más importante que la vida del niño.
El final del verano
Director of Photography
La familia Kohayagawa se prepara para casar a la joven Noriko, la hija pequeña, mientras que su hermana Akiko, viuda y con dos hijos, recibe una propuesta de matrimonio de un hombre con una buena posición económica. El viejo patriarca Banpei se comporta, sin embargo, de forma curiosa: decide ir a visitar a su antigua amante, Tsune, actitud que su hija Fumiko le reprocha. El viudo Banpei sufre un repentino ataque pero recobra la salud y su hija renuncia a juzgarle.
La noche de las mujeres
Director of Photography
A fines de la década de 1950 se prohibió la prostitución en Japón y si se encontraba a una mujer ejerciendo esta profesión, se la enviaba a un reformatorio. Esta es la historia de una de estas valientes mujeres Kuniko que sale del reformatorio y trata de construir una nueva vida.
The Dangerous Kiss
Cinematography
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
The Blue Beast
Director of Photography
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
The Lost Alibi
Director of Photography
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.
I Want to Be a Shellfish
Cinematography
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
The Big Boss
Director of Photography
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
All About Marriage
Director of Photography
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
Futari dake no hashi
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Trono de sangre
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Japón feudal, siglo XVI. Adaptación del "Macbeth" de William Shakespeare. Cuando los generales Taketori Washizu y Yoshaki Miki regresan de una victoriosa batalla, se encuentran en el camino con una extraña anciana, que profetiza que Washizu llegará a ser el señor del Castillo del Norte. A partir de ese momento, su esposa lo instigará hasta convencerlo de que debe cumplir su destino.
Crónica de un ser vivo
Director of Photography
Poco después de terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) Kiiji Nakajima, un anciano atemorizado por las consecuencias del bombardeo de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, vive obsesionado con la idea de construir un refugio antiatómico. Sin embargo, cuando algún tiempo después se plantea emigrar con su familia a Brasil para evitar la amenaza nuclear, su decisión tropieza con la incomprensión de todos los que lo rodean.
Los siete samuráis
Director of Photography
Una banda de forajidos atemorizan a los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo, saqueándolos periódicamente sin piedad. Para repeler estos ataques, los aldeanos deciden contratar a mercenarios. Finalmente, consiguen los servicios de 7 guerreros, 7 samurais dispuestos a defenderlos a cambio, tan solo, de cobijo y comida.
Mr. Pu
Director of Photography
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Husband and Wife
Director of Photography
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Vivir
Director of Photography
Kanji Watanabe es un viejo funcionario público que arrastra una vida monótona y gris; sin embargo, no es consciente del vacío de su existencia hasta que le diagnostican un cáncer incurable. Con la certeza de que el fin de sus días se acerca, surge en él la necesidad de buscarle un sentido a la vida. Y cuando lo consigue se produce un cambio radical en su actitud respecto a los demás.
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Cinematography
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
Dancing Girl
Director of Photography
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
Elegy
Cinematography
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.
Clothes of Deception
Director of Photography
Clothes of Deception initiated Yoshimura’s most characteristic vein. This geisha story is often described as a loose remake of Mizoguchi’s pre-war masterpiece Sisters of Gion (1936), but this is inexact. Whereas in Mizoguchi’s study of two sisters, both women had been geisha, in Yoshimura’s film only Kimicho (Kyo Machiko) is, while her sister works in the Kyoto tourist office. Juxtaposing a traditional Kyoto profession with a modern one, Yoshimura shows how life in the old capital was changing in the wake of wider transformations in Japanese society.
El perro rabioso
Director of Photography
Ambientada en la postguerra japonesa tras la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Con la estructura del thriller americano y los convencionalismos japoneses, narra la historia de un joven detective al que roban su pistola. Agobiado por un sentimiento de deshonor más que de pérdida, emprende, con un veterano compañero, una frenética e incansable búsqueda que lo lleva a los bajos fondos de Tokyo.
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Director of Photography
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Director of Photography
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
Actress
Director of Photography
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another version of Kenji Mizoguchi's film "The Love of Sumako the Actress" ("Joyû Sumako no koi"), from the same year. Both tells the story of the famous actress Sumako Mitsui (1886-1919), considered the first great modern theater actress in Japan. Mizoguchi himself is said to have preferred Kinugasa's version.
Un domingo maravilloso
Director of Photography
En tiempos de postguerra, dos enamorados pasan juntos un domingo, esperando que sea un día inolvidable. Están llenos de sueños e ilusiones e intentan ser felices. Pese a sus problemas y contratiempos, pese a las preocupaciones derivadas de los bombardeos atómicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, su amor les permite concebir ilusiones sobre un futuro mejor.
No añoro mi juventud
Director of Photography
Yukie, hija de un profesor universitario, se queda conmocionada cuando su padre es expulsado de su cátedra por sus enseñanzas políticas, pero mucho más aún cuando su novio es arrestado y ejecutado bajo la acusación de espionaje.
Yoki na onna
Director of Photography
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
Three Women of the North
Director of Photography
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.
Battle Troop
Director of Photography
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.
Nichijô no tatakai
Director of Photography
The Song Lantern
Director of Photography
A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von Sternberg.
Banzuiin Chōbei
Director of Photography
A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
Hideko the Cheerleader
Cinematography
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
El perfume de la flor de Adonis: Un episodio de Los cuentos de las flores
Cinematography
Cuando la cuñada de Kaoru, Miyoko, llega al hogar familiar, emerge entre ellas un fuerte sentimiento que las hace cercanas. Mas esta inefable felicidad que les procuran los momentos que pasan juntas es frustrada por Mitsuo, el marido de Miyoko y hermano de Kaoru. quien constantemente interviene en su relación...
El perfume de la flor de Adonis: Un episodio de Los cuentos de las flores
Director of Photography
Cuando la cuñada de Kaoru, Miyoko, llega al hogar familiar, emerge entre ellas un fuerte sentimiento que las hace cercanas. Mas esta inefable felicidad que les procuran los momentos que pasan juntas es frustrada por Mitsuo, el marido de Miyoko y hermano de Kaoru. quien constantemente interviene en su relación...