Cinematography: Takeo Ito
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Takeo Ito. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 47
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
Direction Kon Ichikawa
Cast Masayuki Mori · Michiyo Aratama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Shoji Yasui
7.0
51 votes
7.0
51 votes
Miniature
1953 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan
Direction Kaneto Shindô
Cast Nobuko Otowa · Isuzu Yamada · Sumiko Hidaka · Sô Yamamura
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
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Kingorô Yanagiya · Hisako Yamane · Meiko Nakamura · Entatsu Yokoyama
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
Direction Kaneto Shindô
Cast Nobuko Otowa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Jûkichi Uno · Ichiro Sugai
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Gokumon-jima - Kaimei-hen
1949 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda
Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Chizuru Kitagawa · Isamu Kosugi · Kuniko Miyake
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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
Direction Kaneto Shindô
Cast Nobuko Otowa · Sanae Takasugi · Taiji Tonoyama · Jun Hamamura
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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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Echigo jishi matsuri
1939 · Movie · 57 min. · Japan
Direction Kunio Watanabe
Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Takako Irie · Hisako Yamane · Yônosuke Toba
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Koharu's Play
1942 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan
Direction Nobuo Aoyagi
Cast Kotaro Bando · Hisako Yamane · Toshiko Iizuka · Kingorô Yanagiya
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A Billionaire
1954 · Movie · 165 min. · Japan
Direction Kon Ichikawa
Cast Isao Kimura · Yoshiko Kuga · Isuzu Yamada · Yûnosuke Itô
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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
Direction Shigehiro Ozawa
Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Satomi Oka · Noriko Kitazawa · Yoshio Yoshida
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