Menu
Kazuo Miyagawa

Kazuo Miyagawa

Known For Camera
Birthday Feb 25, 1908
Died Aug 07, 1999 (91)
Birthplace Kyoto, Japan
Popularity 0.4 (history)
Updated Sep 30, 2025
Entry Date Sep 30, 2025
Links TMDb IMDb
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.

Known For

Filmography

No data available

Yojimbo

Yojimbo

1961

Director of Photography

Rashomon

Rashomon

1950

Director of Photography

No data available

No data available

Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

No data available

No data available

Popularity Metrics

Popularity History


Year Month Avg Max Min
2024 6 1 3 1
2024 7 11 22 4
2024 8 5 17 1
2024 9 3 6 1
2024 10 2 5 1
2024 11 1 3 1
2024 12 1 2 1
2025 1 4 13 1
2025 2 1 1 1
2025 3 1 2 1
2025 6 1 1 1
2025 7 0 0 0
2025 8 0 2 0
2025 9 0 0 0
2025 10 0 0 0

Trending Rank


Year Month Avg Rank Max Rank
No trending metrics available.

Return to Top