Cinematography: Yoshio Kitagawa

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


Happy Hour

2015 · Movie · 317 min. · Japan

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Hiromi Demura · Rira Kawamura · Sachie Tanaka · Maiko Mihara

Plot Kobe, Japan. Four women. All in their 30s. Three married, one divorcee. They are able to tell each other anything. Or at least they thought. Jun, Akari, Sakurako and Fumi...

7.4

340 votes

7.4

340 votes

Evil Does Not Exist

2023 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Hitoshi Omika · Ryo Nishikawa · Ryuji Kosaka · Ayaka Shibutani

Plot Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One...

6.8

445 votes

6.8

445 votes

Heaven Is Still Far Away

2016 · Movie · 38 min. · Japan

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Cast Nao Okabe · Anne Ogawa

Plot Yuzo, a mosaic engineer for porn videos, lives under the same roof as Mitsuki, a high school student with whom he leads a peculiar life. One day, Yuzo receives a...

6.8

26 votes

6.8

26 votes

Kingyo (S)

2009 · Movie · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Edmund Yeo

Cast Luchino Fujisaki · Takao Kawaguchi · Qyoko Kudo

Plot A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid. As they both walk through the streets of...

6.2

46 votes

6.2

46 votes

Voices from the Waves: Shinchimachi

2013 · Documentary · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Ko Sakai

Plot This documentary is a continuation of The Sound of the Waves, which was produced in 2011. With Kesennuma, it forms half of the second installment in a trilogy on the...

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The Sound of Waves

2012 · Documentary · 142 min. · Japan

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Kou Sakai

Plot March 11th, 2011, a huge earthquake followed by a giant tsunami strikes the coastal regions of Tohoku in Japan. Starting in the district of Taro, the two directors drive south...

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From Dark

2007 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan

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The Great Basin

2021 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States

Direction Chivas DeVinck

Plot A complex panorama of rural Nevada, in the Western United States, through a tapestry of characters who work, live, and play there, from below the earth to the stars. 'The...

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Intimacies (Shinmitsusa)

2012 · Movie · 255 min. · Japan

Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Plot Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part...

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Voices from the Waves: Shinchimachi

2014 · Documentary · 103 min. · Japan

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Voices from the Waves: Kesennuma

2014 · Documentary · 103 min. · Japan

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Third Time Lucky

2021 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Tadashi Nohara

Cast Rira Kawamura · Katsuyuki Kobayashi · Hiromi Demura

Plot A young man who has lost his memory intersects with the veiled emotions of people around him.

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