Cinematography: Takeo Ito

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


Drunken Angel

1948 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Chieko Nakakita

Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper works in a village whose most prominent geographical feature is a disease-ridden sump. Businesses and social life are infected by the yakuza, or...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Children of Hiroshima

1952 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Osamu Takizawa · Niwa Saito · Tsuneko Yamanaka

Plot Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to...

7.2

194 votes

7.2

194 votes

The Heart

1955 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

7.0

51 votes

7.0

51 votes

Miniature

1953 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

6.8

32 votes

6.8

32 votes

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

1945 · Movie · 59 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Takashi Shimura · Kenichi Enomoto

Plot Kurosawa's widely acclaimed master-piece was something of a last-minute affair, made after his plans to direct a lavish costume picture fel through and using its sets, costumes and actors. The...

6.5

743 votes

6.5

743 votes

This Happy Life

1944 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

1945 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Akitake Kôno

Plot In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

5.8

380 votes

5.8

380 votes

Gin shinju (Shirogane sinju)

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

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Gokumon-jima - Kaimei-hen

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

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Ishimatsu: The One-Eyed Avenger

1960 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Hibari Misora · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Chie Ueki · Kunio Kaga

Plot Some of the finest jidai-geki actors appear in this exciting and entertaining tale of intrigue and action in old Japan. Teaming up the ever-popular Misora Hibari with the greatest samurai...

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Wolf

1955 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

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The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate

1935 · Movie · 63 min. · Japan

Direction Taizô Fuyushima

Cast Reiko Aoi · Hiromitsu Aoki · Kitsunosuke Bando · Kotaro Bando

Plot Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as...

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Life of the Woman

1953 · Movie · 136 min. · Japan

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Koreya Senda · Jûkichi Uno · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Kyoto, in the beginning of the Showa period (late 1920s/early 1930s). Fujiko, the daughter of a priest, has after graduating from girls’ high school married the butcher’s son Shintaro. Shintaro’s...

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Pirates

1960 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Eiji Okada · Hashizo Okawa · Satomi Oka · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period (Sengoku-jidai) sailed to China, Korea,...

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Koharu's Play

1942 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

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A Billionaire

1954 · Movie · 165 min. · Japan

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Those Who Make Tomorrow

1946 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa · Hideo Sekigawa · Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Susumu Fujita · Hideko Takamine · Kenji Susukida · Masayuki Mori

Plot Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking...

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A Man's Triumph

1941 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kitsunosuke Bando · Sachiko Chiba · Satoko Date

Plot A story of a friendship between a famous actor and a famous doctor. Though the film was originally 106 minutes long, the only extant version is 73 minutes.

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Lion Festival of Echigo

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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