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Topic: Kazuo Miyagawa


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  ipedia.com: Rashomon (movie) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Based on two stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Rashomon and In a Grove) it describes a crime through the widely differing accounts of four witnesses, including the perpetrator.
Rashomon was one of three films on which Kurosawa collaborated with master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
The 1964 western movie the The Outrage, was a remake of Rashomon.
www.ipedia.com /rashomon__movie_.html   (206 words)

  
 Kurosawa
"Yojimbo is the bet-filmed of any of Kurosawa's pictures (Richie 152)." Kazuo Miyagawa did an excellent job shooting this film by using several different techniques.
Mifune's character sits atop a bell tower and watches for his enjoyment the hijinks that he created.
Miyagawa uses low camera angles on the ground for an added effect, while at the same time using a sort of dietic view as the samurai watches the action.
www3.baylor.edu /~Brooks_Grigson/papers/Kurosawa.html   (2015 words)

  
 Fall 2004 Series
An interview with Moira Shearer and Jack Cardiff"
"Remaking his own 1934 film, STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS, Ozu changed the setting to a seaside town and exploited the palette of Mizoguchi's regular cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa, for some of the most gorgeous images in his color work.
The story remains largely the same as before: when the head of an itinerant troupe (Ganjiro Nakamura) visits the small town where he fathered a son years before, his mistress (Machiko Kyo) attempts to bring about a confrontation with his former lover and now adult son.
csac.buffalo.edu /BFS_fall_2004_annotated.htm   (2954 words)

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