Kazuo Miyagawa
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Career
Born in Kyoto, Miyagawa was taken with sumi-e Chinese ink painting from the age of eleven and began to sell his work as an illustrator while a teenager.<ref name="Kirkup">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Ebiri">Template:Cite news</ref> He became interested in the cinema during the 1920s, particularly admiring the German Expressionist silents. He joined the Nikkatsu film company in 1926 after graduating from Kyoto Commercial School.<ref name="MOMA">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Bergan">Template:Cite news</ref> He began as a laboratory technician before becoming an assistant cameraman.<ref name="Ebiri"/> Miyagawa cited the cinematography of Eiji Tsuburaya, Template:Ill and Kenzo Sakai as an influence on his career.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Miyagawa is best known for his tracking shots, particularly those in Rashomon (1950), the first of his collaborations with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Other films with Kurosawa include Yojimbo (1961) and initial preparations for Kagemusha (1980).<ref name="Bergan"/> He also worked on multiple films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, including Ugetsu (1953). Still, only on a single Yasujirō Ozu production, Floating Weeds (1959).<ref name="Ebiri"/> He oversaw 164 cameramen for Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad (1965), a documentary which necessitated the development of new exposure meters and viewfinders.<ref name="Bergan"/> Earlier, he had worked with Ichikawa on the drama films, Enjō ("The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", 1958), Odd Obsession (aka, The Key, 1959) and The Broken Commandment (1962).<ref name="Kirkup"/>
Miyagawa worked with Masahiro Shinoda in the 1980s, and at the end of his life was supervising the director's Owls' Castle ("Fukuro no Shiro"/"Castle of Owls", 1999).<ref name="Kirkup"/>
Miyagawa is considered the inventor of the cinematographic technique known as bleach bypass, for Ichikawa's film Her Brother (1960).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Selected filmography
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- Floating Weeds (1959)
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- Her Brother (1960)
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- A Certain Killer (1967)
- Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
- Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
- Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
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