Kazuo Miyagawa

Camera Feb 25, 1908 Aug 7, 1999 (aged 91) Kyoto, Japan

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.

2 Acting Credits

80 Crew Credits

Acting

Movie

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

as Self

1975

Movie

The World of Kazuo Miyagawa

as Self

Director of Photography

1964