2000Nominee
Best Director
Battle Royale
Katsumi Yanagijima
Director
Gifu, Japan
August 13, 1950
Biography
Katsumi Yanagishima (柳島 克巳, Yanagishima Katsumi; born 1950, Gifu Prefecture), also credited as Katsumi Yanagijima, is a Japanese cinematographer. Yanagishima has worked with Takeshi Kitano in many of his films, including A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine, Zatoichi, Kids Return, Kikujiro and Dolls. He won the Japan Academy Prize for best cinematography for Go! in 2002 and for Zatoichi in 2004. Battle Royale and The Grudge 2 are some of his other known films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katsumi Yanagishima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2003Nominee
Best Director
Zatoichi
2006Nominee
Best Director
The Grudge 2
Career Highlights
1999Highlight
Best Director
Kikujiro
1990Highlight
Best Director
Boiling Point