1950Winner
Best Director
Rashomon
Kazuo Miyagawa
Actor · Director
Kyoto, Japan
February 25, 1908
Biography
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1961Winner
Best Director
Yojimbo
1953Winner
Best Director
Ugetsu
Career Highlights
1954Highlight
Best Director
Sansho the Bailiff
1954Highlight
Best Director
Chikamatsu Monogatari