Kazuo Miyagawa

Kazuo Miyagawa

Nacimiento : 1908-02-25, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Muerte : 1999-08-07

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Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川 一夫 Miyagawa Kazuo, February 25, 1908 – August 7, 1999) was an acclaimed Japanese cinematographer. Miyagawa is best known for his tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon (1950), the first of his three collaborations with preeminent filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. He also worked on films by major directors Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, and Kon Ichikawa, such as Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Floating Weeds (1959) and the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965) respectively. Miyagawa is regarded as having invented the cinematographic technique known as bleach bypass, for Ichikawa's 1960 film Her Brother.

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The World of Kazuo Miyagawa
Renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa collaborated with a number of great Japanese filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Yasujiro Ozu. The following excerpts from the Japanese television documentary THE WORLD OF KAZUO MIYAGAWA explore Miyagawa and Kurosawa’s working relationship on RASHOMON.
The Dancer
Director of Photography
Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.
Gonza, el lancero
Director of Photography
La película se centra en la trágica historia de Gonza, un guapo mujeriego que vive en el período de Tokagawa, momento histórico en el que las apariencias son muy importantes. Gonza compite con Bannojo por el honor de realizar la ceremonia del té con motivo de la celebración del nacimiento del heredero del jefe de su clan.
MacArthur's Children
Director of Photography
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
Cinematography
A bunraku puppet drama of the courtesan Ohatsu and her lover, Tokubei, a soy-sauce merchant whose fortunes have gone awry through the perfidy of a trusted associate. For Tokubei, suicide is the only honorable act left; for Ohatsu, it is the only emotionally viable one.
Island of the Evil Spirits
Director of Photography
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
La balada de Orin
Director of Photography
Orin es una cantante ciega que se gana la vida en una compañía de músicos ambulantes. Tras ser violada, es expulsada de su compañía por haber perdido la virginidad. Abandonada, a Orin no le queda más remedio que seguir ganándose la vida sola de pueblo en pueblo con sus actuaciones. Durante el camino será presa de personas mezquinas que intentarán aprovecharse de ella, pero también conocerá el amor.
The Possessed
Director of Photography
Horror film based on the story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
Kenji Mizoguchi, la vida de un director
Película que repasa la vida y obra del realizador japonés Kenji Mizoguchi, utilizando para ello fragmentos de sus películas, entrevistas y otro tipo de información.
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Director of Photography
Hanzo y sus ayudantes detienen a un par de ladrones que confiesan haber saqueado un cadáver. Al encontrar el cuerpo deduce que ha sufrido un aborto y sus investigaciones le llevan a un convento regido por sádicas monjas que se dedican a ofrecer novicias a nobles para ser torturadas de mil maneras.
El lobo solitario y su cachorro: carro de bebé en Peril
Director of Photography
Cuarta entrega de la serie de adaptaciones al cine de imágen real del famoso manga escrito por Kazuo Koike y dibujado por Goseki Kojima. Narra las aventuras de un ronin que deambula por el Japón del shogunato Tokugawa acompañado de un niño. En esta ocasión Ogami es contratado para acabar con una asesina tatuada, mientras Gunbei Yagyu, un antiguo enemigo que ha encontrado a Daigoro por casualidad, le desafía en duelo.
The Fearless Avenger
Director of Photography
Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed. Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.
The Trail of Blood
Director of Photography
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.
Silencio
Director of Photography
Adaptación de la novela de Shusaku Endo, la película de Shinoda coescrita con Endo, explora el violento conflicto cultural que se produce a la llegada de misioneros jesuitas a Japón en el siglo XVII.
Zatoichi va a la fiesta del fuego
Director of Photography
Vigésimo primera de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. Zatoichi se enamora de una mujer de una familia que pertenece a un clan yakuza cuyo cabecilla es Dark Lord Yamikubo, un hombre ciego malvado que no dudará en llevar a cabo sus propósitos a cualquier precio. Por otro lado, el antiguo marido de la mujer que ama Zatoichi, un ronin muy celoso interpretado por Tatsuya Nakadai, decide acabar con Zatoichi ya que no soporta pensar en que ambos dos puedan llegar a estar juntos.
Zatoichi meets Yojimbo
Director of Photography
Zatoichi regresa a una aldea que había visitado tres años antes y que le trae buenos recuerdos. Sin embargo, desde hace dos años, la región sufre una hambruna que atrajo al pueblo a varios grupos de bandoleros, ya que era de los pocos lugares que todavía tenían provisiones. Para acabar con los bandoleros, se contrató a un clan yakuza. Por otro lado, al mercenario Yojimbo le ofrecen una gran recompensa por la cabeza de Zatoichi.
The Magoichi Saga
Director of Photography
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
Devil's Temple
Director of Photography
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?
The Funeral Racket
Director of Photography
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Director of Photography
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
A Killer's Key
Director of Photography
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Director of Photography
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
A Certain Killer
Director of Photography
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
The Little Runaway
Director of Photography
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
Zatoichi's Vengeance
Director of Photography
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
Tatuaje
Director of Photography
En desacuerdo con sus padres, Otsuya huye de su hogar para refugiarse en los brazos de Gonji, quien termina vendiéndola en una casa de geishas. Allí, un maestro del tatuaje dibuja sobre su hermoso cuerpo una inmensa araña. Como si el espíritu del insecto tomara posesión de la joven, el deseo irreprimible de venganza se transforma en el centro de su vida. Como la viuda negra tatuada en su espalda, Otsuya arruina la vida de todo hombre que se cruce en su camino.
Las olimpiadas de Tokio
Cinematography
Aclamado documental dedicado a los Juegos Olímpicos que Japón hospedó en 1964. (FILMAFFINITY)
Las olimpiadas de Tokio
Director of Photography
Aclamado documental dedicado a los Juegos Olímpicos que Japón hospedó en 1964. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bloody Shuriken
Director of Photography
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.
The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
Cinematography
The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
Zatoichi y el cofre de oro
Director of Photography
Sexta de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. En esta sexta entrega, un cofre con 1000 ryus en su interior perteneciente a unos aldeanos es robado. Zatoichi es acusado del robo ya que fue visto muy cerca del lugar de los hechos. Para limpiar su nombre, Zatoichi decide ayudar a los aldeanos a descubrir quién es el culpable del atraco e intenta recuperar el botín por todos los medios.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Director of Photography
Un joven artesano de bambú se casa con una prostituta, pero es incapaz de consumar el matrimonio porque la imagen de su difunto padre, que la había visitado durante los últimos cinco años, se interpone entre ellos.
Rabble Tactics
Director of Photography
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks more like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.
The Third Will
Director of Photography
The Money Dance
Director of Photography
Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
The Broken Commandment
Director of Photography
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
Bad Reputation Returns
Director of Photography
Tough Guy
Director of Photography
Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.
The Gambler's Code
Director of Photography
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!
Yojimbo (El mercenario)
Director of Photography
En el siglo XIX, en un Japón todavía feudal, un samurái llega a un poblado, donde dos bandas de mercenarios luchan entre sí por el control del territorio. Muy pronto el recién llegado da muestras de ser un guerrero invencible, por lo que los jefes de las dos bandas intentan contratar sus servicios.
Her Brother
Director of Photography
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Scarred Yosaburo
Director of Photography
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotional scars he now carries with him, Yosaburo falls for a young noblewoman. The rest of the film follows the two as they fend off attacks from gangs and the police.
Bonchi
Director of Photography
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
A Woman's Testament
Director of Photography
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
La hierba errante
Director of Photography
Remake de un film mudo dirigido por el propio Ozu en el año 1934. Narra la historia de un grupo de actores ambulantes que van a parar a una pequeña población de provincias. Allí el actor principal se reencuentra con una antigua amante y con un hijo ilegítimo.
Odd Obsession
Director of Photography
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
The Gay Masquerade
Director of Photography
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
Enjo
Director of Photography
Adaptación de la novela de Yukio Mishima "El pabellón de oro", a través de diálogos y flashbacks controlados se cuenta la historia de un novicio budista que llegará a destruir lo que más ama: el pabellón.
Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
Director of Photography
Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other demonic creatures.
Princess Tsuki
Director of Photography
Night Butterflies
Director of Photography
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Love of the Princess
Director of Photography
A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.
Night River
Director of Photography
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
La calle de la vergüenza
Director of Photography
"El País de los sueños", un burdel situado en un barrio de Tokio, atraviesa una difícil situación, ya que el Parlamento está a punto de aprobar una ley que prohíbe la prostitución. Retrato de la vida cotidiana de diversas prostitutas: aquellas a las que las circunstancias obligaron a comerciar con su cuerpo, pero también aquellas otras que intentan abandonar ese medio de vida.
El héroe sacrílego
Director of Photography
En el Japón feudal del siglo XII, los Taira y los Fujiwara son clanes que luchan por la supremacía. Mientras tanto, en el palacio imperial hay dos cortes: la del emperador en funciones y la de su predecesor.
The Second Son
Director of Photography
Los amantes crucificados
Director of Photography
Adaptación de una obra de teatro (kabuki) del siglo XVII de Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Osan vive en Kioto y está casada con Ishun, un rico y tacaño funcionario. Cuando Osan es acusada falsamente de tener una relación con Mohei, ambos huyen rápidamente de la ciudad. Ishun, por su parte, ordena a sus hombres que los encuentren y los separen para evitar el escándalo.
La mujer crucificada
Director of Photography
Yukiko es una estudiante de música que, después de un intento de suicidio, vuelve con su madre, Hatsuko, una viuda que regenta una casa de geishas. El joven doctor Matoba, que mantiene un affaire con Hatsuko, se siente atraído por Yukiko. Ella, al principio, lo rechaza, pero sus sentimientos van cambiando y llega incluso a enfrentarse con su madre.
El intendente Sansho
Director of Photography
A finales de la Era Heian en el siglo XII, el gobernador de un pueblo es enviado al exilio. A pesar de que su familia quiere ir con él, ninguno podrá acompañarle, pues, engañados por una vieja que se hace pasar por sacerdotisa, son vendidos como esclavos por separado: la madre por un lado y los hijos por otro.
Los músicos de Gion
Director of Photography
La joven y bella Eiko ha ido a refugiarse a un barrio de Kioto, a casa de Miyoharu, una geisha con muy buena reputación de la que Eiko quiere aprender. Ambas se hacen inseparables, pero una noche Eiko muerde a un cliente y las dos deben abandonar el barrio.
Cuentos de la luna pálida
Director of Photography
En el Japón del siglo XVI, los campesinos Genjuro y Tobei venden sus vasijas de barro a un grupo de soldados en un pueblo cercano, desafiando la advertencia de un sabio local contra la búsqueda de ganancias en la guerra. La búsqueda de riquezas de Genjuro y de la misteriosa Lady Wakasa, así como el deseo de Tobei de convertirse en samurái, corren el riesgo de destruirlos a ellos mismos y a sus esposas, Miyagi y Ohama.
Reminiscence
Director of Photography
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
Sisters of Nishijin
Director of Photography
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
La señorita Oyu
Director of Photography
Shinnosuke acepta casarse con Shizu con tal de poder estar cerca de su hermana Oyu, viuda y madre de un hijo. Las costumbres japonesas prohíben que Oyu se case porque su deber es educar a su hijo para que llegue a ser el jefe de la familia de su marido. Entre los tres se creará un extraño vínculo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Rashomon
Director of Photography
Japón, siglo XII. En Kioto, bajo las puertas del derruido templo de Rashomon, se guarecen de la torrencial lluvia un leñador, un sacerdote budista y un peregrino. Los tres discuten sobre el juicio a un bandido, acusado de haber dado muerte a un señor feudal y violado a su esposa. Los detalles del crimen son narrados desde el punto de vista del bandido, de la mujer, del señor feudal -con la ayuda de un médium- y del leñador, único testigo de los hechos.
Song of Love
Director of Photography
That Night's Adventure
Cinematography
Children Hand in Hand
Director of Photography
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
The Woman Who Opens the Door
Cinematography
Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Cinematography
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.
Wrestling-Ring Festival
Cinematography
According to Donal Richie in The Japanese Film it was meant to do for sumo wrestling what Kurosawa had done for judo in Sanshiro sugata, and that Kurosawa wrote it for Daiei after "drinking up all [his] money" (from his autobiography).
The Life of Matsu the Untamed
Director of Photography
Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents.
Singing Lovebirds
Director of Photography
An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable daughter to a suitor she doesn't love.