Personal Info

Known For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

February 25, 1908

Died

August 7, 1999 (91 years old)

Place of Birth

Kyoto, Japan

Also Known As

宮川一夫

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Kazuo Miyagawa

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.