Cinematography: Masakazu Ato
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Masakazu Ato. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Memories of Matsuko
2006 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Miki Nakatani · Eita · Yusuke Iseya · Teruyuki Kagawa
Plot It is the present day and Matsuko's nephew, Sho, is cleaning out his dead aunt's filthy apartment. Through a series of encounters, he gradually learns of his aunt's checkered life....
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Confessions
2010 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Takako Matsu · Masaki Okada · Yoshino Kimura · Yukito Nishii
Plot Impassive before a class where lack of interest and disorder reign, a teacher begins a long monologue that culminates in an overwhelming revelation: the accident that took her daughter´s life...
7.0
13K votes
7.0
13K votes
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Hidaka Yoshitomo · Nagi Noriko · Maki Ishikawa · Hiroko Taguchi
Plot Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed;...
6.8
49 votes
6.8
49 votes
Tokyo.Sora
2002 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Ishikawa
Cast Haruka Igawa · Yuka Itaya · Ayano Nakamura · Manami Honjou
6.6
33 votes
6.6
33 votes
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!
2007 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan
Direction Daihachi Yoshida
Cast Eriko Sato · Hiromi Nagasaku · Masatoshi Nagase · Aimi Satsukawa
Plot When the homely 18-year-old Kyomi (Aimi Satsukawa) loses both of her parents to a car wreck, tragedy sets the stage for a seriocomic and occasionally poignant battle-of-wills between the young...
6.6
96 votes
6.6
96 votes
Kamikaze Girls
2004 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Kyôko Fukada · Anna Tsuchiya · Hiroyuki Miyasako · Sadao Abe
Plot Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. A...
6.2
938 votes
6.2
938 votes
Beautiful Sunday
1998 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast Momoko Bitô · Teruyuki Kagawa · Ittoku Kishibe · Masatoshi Nagase
Plot Tetsuya Nakajima directs this black comedy about Sunday, that day of rest. Constructed like Grand Hotel, the film interweaves the lives of an assorted collection of oddball Tokyoites living in...
5.2
26 votes
5.2
26 votes
AI Amok
2020 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
Direction Yû Irie
Cast Sei Ashina · Alice Hirose · Takanori Iwata · Kento Kaku
Plot Artificial Intelligence has permeated every aspect of planetary life in 2030. Tokyoites experience AI in every aspect of their lives whether medical, finance, transportation or their personal and day-to-day interactions....
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