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
Direction Mikio Ohkado
Cast Gen'ichiro Ohshita · Miho Chiyoya · Juu Myoung · Kazuhiro Nakahara
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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
Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Ko Sakai
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Voices from the Waves: Kesennuma
2014 · Documentary · 103 min. · Japan
Direction Ryûsuke Hamaguchi · Ko Sakai
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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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