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

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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