Shouichi Atou

Nascimento : , Japan

História

In 1998, Masakazu Ato marked his debut as a cinematographer with Tetsuya Nakajima's Happy Go Lucky Ever since, he has remained a constant presence in Nakajima's cinematic works. He achieved the honor of winning the Japan Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times. Notably, Paco and the Magical Book and Confessions were jointly recognized, sharing the award with Atsushi Ozawa.

Filmes

AI Amok
Director of Photography
In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence has become essential in people's lives. They have come to completely trust AI, but artificial intelligence becomes out of control and it causes disaster.
Sunny: Our Hearts Beat Together
Director of Photography
A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them dies from cancer.
Se os Gatos Desaparecessem do Mundo
Director of Photography
Um carteiro descobre que ele não tem muito tempo de vida, devido a uma doença terminal. Um diabo aparece na sua frente e oferece prolongar sua vida em troca de alguma coisa que possa desaparecer do mundo. O homem pensa sobre seu relacionamento com ex-amigos, ex-amantes, parentes e colegas que ficariam tristes quando ele morrer.
Parasita - Parte 2
Director of Photography
Baseado em um mangá de Hitoshi Iwaaki, o filme conta a segunda parte da história de Izumi e seu parasita, Migi.
Parasita - Parte 1
Director of Photography
A história se passa em um mundo em que seres extraterrestres chamados parasitas invadem a Terra. Eles se apoderam dos humanos entrando pelas cavidades corporais, com a finalidade de controlar o corpo da vítima. A história se desenrola quando um extraterrestre chamado Migi falha em se apoderar do corpo de Shinichi Izumi, fazendo com que os dois sejam obrigados a conviver juntos.
The World of Kanako
Director of Photography
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
Confissões
Director of Photography
No último dia de aula a professora ao se despedir revela que abandonará a profissão, e o motivo é a morte de sua filha de 4 anos há pouco tempo atrás. Ela revela que sabe que o afogamento da menina não foi acidental; foi assassinada, e os assassinos estão entre os estudantes daquela classe. Como a lei não permite a responsabilização de crianças menores de 14 anos por seus crimes ela anuncia que fará justiça com as próprias mãos.
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
Director of Photography
Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as Captain Kuhio a pilot for an American Special Unit. He also boasts that he is the offspring of Kamehameha I and a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth of England. In actuality, the man is a marriage swindler looking for his next big score.
Paco and the Magical Book
Director of Photography
There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by himself from scratch, is a super cranky old man. One day, he meets up a girl called Paco, who cannot retain memory beyond one day due to a car accident. She is reading the same picture book everyday. Onuki starts bonding with Paco after some incident, and begins to doubt his way of living. He starts wanting to do something for Paco with his remaining life, and comes up with a brilliant idea. This pleases Paco, but their fate is?
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!
Director of Photography
Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.
Memories of Matsuko
Director of Photography
Sho deixou sua cidade natal para tentar ser músico, mas nada deu certo. Um dia é acordado pelo pai portando as cinzas de uma tia que ele nem sabia que existia; o pai pede que vá limpar o apartamento da mulher que foi expulsa da família 30 anos atrás, e aos poucos Sho vai descobrir a história da tia que nunca conheceu.
Kamikaze Girls
Director of Photography
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Tokyo.Sora
Director of Photography
Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ritual of the ordinary and the exciting, a balancing act for their dreams and hopes as the days perpetually tug on their heartstrings.
Beautiful Sunday
Director of Photography
A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.
Happy Go Lucky
Director of Photography
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums. Furthermore, all five must succeed, if one of them cannot do it, then all of them fail. Takashi is really worried and wonders if he won’t be always the loser who couldn’t succeed in the back pullover bar exercise.