Shigeru Komatsubara
Shigeru Komatsubara (小松原茂 Komatsubara Shigeru, born 1949) is a Japanese cinematographer. His work has mostly been in the action genre, but his first feature film was as an assistant on The Pornographers by Shohei Imamura. He worked on early Takashi Miike straight-to-video films such as Lady Hunter and A Human Murder Weapon, and then resumed working with Imamura as chief cinematographer for some of his last films such as Unagi and Dr. Akagi. He also did the cinematography for the 2013 TV series Neko Zamurai starring Kazuki Kitamura.[1]
Awards
He received a Japan Film Technical Award (Nihon Eiga Gijutsushō) from the Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan for the cinematography for Unagi in 1997,[2] and won the Japan Movie Critics Award for best cinematography in 2008 for Koi suru tomato.[3]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | The Ballad of Narayama | Shohei Imamura |
| 1991 | Toppū! Minipato tai - Aikyacchi Jankushon | Takashi Miike |
| 1991 | Lady Hunter: Prelude To Murder | Takashi Miike |
| 1992 | A Human Murder Weapon | Takashi Miike |
| 1995 | Bad Guy Beach | Shō Aikawa |
| 1996 | Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers | Masahide Kuwabara |
| 1997 | Unagi | Shohei Imamura |
| 1998 | Dr. Akagi | Shohei Imamura |
| 1999 | Moonlight Whispers | Akihiko Shiota |
| 2001 | Warm Water Under a Red Bridge | Shohei Imamura |
| 2006 | 13 no Tsuki | Hiroyuki Ikeuchi |
| 2007 | Kyonyu wo business ni shita otoko | Takeshi Watanabe |
| 2007 | Lemon no Koro | Yuki Iwata |
| 2008 | Oka wo koete | Banmei Takahashi |
| 2008 | Dōsōkai | Takayuki Takuma |
| 2009 | Dōtei Hōrōki | Yûichi Onuma |
| 2013 | Aragure | Hajime Gonno |
| 2013 | Jinjin | Daiki Yamada |
| 2013 | Tobe! Dakota | Seiji Aburatani |
References
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3303752/?ref_=nm_flmg_cin_1
- ↑ "Nihon eiga gijutsushō jushōsha ichiran" (in Japanese). Nihon Eiga Terebi Gijutsu Kyōkai. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ↑ "Kako no jushō sakuhin 2000-2009" (in Japanese). Nihon Eiga Hihyōka Taishō. Retrieved 2 April 2015.