Cinematography: Yuzuru Aizawa

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Yuzuru Aizawa. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Scattered Clouds (Two in the Shadow)

1967 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

7.8

715 votes

7.8

715 votes

The Bad Sleep Well

1960 · Movie · 150 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takeshi Katô · Masayuki Mori · Takashi Shimura

Plot A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

1974 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Masaaki Daimon · Kazuya Aoyama · Reiko Tajima · Beru-Bera Lin

Plot Aliens intend to take over the planet and, just in case Godzilla tries to interfere, have built a mechanical version of him to put an end to his interference. The...

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5.0

126 votes

5.0

126 votes

Wakusei daisenso

1977 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Kensaku Morita · Yûko Asano · Ryo Ikebe · Masaya Oki

Plot Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity.

4.5

29 votes

4.5

29 votes

Godzilla Vs. Megalon

1973 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Katsuhiko Sasaki · Hiroyuki Kawase · Yutaka Hayashi · Robert Dunham

Plot The undersea nation of Seatopia sends the gigantic Megalon to destroy the world above - and it's up to Godzilla and a size-shifting robot, Jet Jaguar, to defeat him.

Max

3.8

151 votes

3.8

151 votes

Sono basho ni onna arite

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Hideo Suzuki

Cast Akira Takarada · Yôko Tsukasa · Kumi Mizuno · Chisako Hara

Plot Story of romance and rivalry between to ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

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Ultraman Ace (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Masanori Kakei · Eizo Yamagiwa · Tadashi Mafune · Takumi Furukawa

Cast Keiji Takamine · Mitsuko Hoshi · Tetsurô Sagawa · Shunichi Okita

Plot TV series (1972-1973). 52 episodes.

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Nihonjin no heso

1977 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Mako Midori · Akihiro Miwa · Hajime Hana · Osami Nabe

Plot Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

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The Izu Dancer

1967 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

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Warring Clans

1963 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Yuriko Hoshi · Makoto Satô · Ichirô Nakatani

Plot Kichi is a powerful ninja running away from the Takeda clan, and particularly from another ninja called Saburoza. During his trip he meets two misterious men: Doko Harima is a...

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Westward Desperado

1960 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan

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Ichi ka bachi ka

1963 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

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Operation Sewer Rats

1962 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Yosuke Natsuki · Makoto Satô · Kumi Mizuno

Plot The 3rd and final entry of Okamoto's "Dokuritsu gurentai" trilogy of satiric WWII films

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Desperate Outpost

1959 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Makoto Satô · Izumi Yukimura · Misa Uehara · Tadao Nakamaru

Plot When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.

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