Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi

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


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1971 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Keiko Takahashi · Masaaki Daimon · Keizo Kanie · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot A young factory worker is picked up and courted by a clumsy youth with yakuza dreams, over one long day and a night. But in the fourteen years since Kisses,...

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Vixen

1969 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Eiko Azusa

Plot A young woman blackmails a corrupted college dean for two million yen after being raped by his son. Dealing through the son in law, then she tries to lure him...

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The Time of Reckoning

1968 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

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The Hot Little Girl

1970 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mari Atsumi · Ryo Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu · Ryoichi Tamagawa

Plot A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.

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The Dedicated Gunman

1965 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

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Hole in One

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Sugawara

Plot Eccentric film about female reporter fired for writing about police corruption. To make money she hides while a weekly magazine offers a prize for her discovery. A bank embezzler and...

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The Wanderers

1973 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Isao Bitô · Tadao Futami · Kenichi Hagiwara · Reiko Inoue

Plot Three toseinin, low-class wanderers who follow the yakuza code, go from village to village ready to work or fight for anyone who will give them food and lodging.

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Solar eclipse

1975 · Movie · 155 min. · Japan

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