Cinematography: Kimio Watanabe

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


Patriotism (The Rite of Love and Death)

1966 · Movie · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Yukio Mishima · Domoto Masaki

Cast Yukio Mishima · Yoshiko Tsuruoka

Synopsis Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima predicted his own suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking. All prints of Patriotism (Yukoku), which depicts the seppuku (ritual suicide) of a naval officer, were destroyed after Mishima's death in...

7.0

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7.0

356 votes

Warning from Space

1956 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Keizo Kawasaki · Toyomi Karita · Bin Yagasawa · Shozo Nanbu

Synopsis UFO's are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor...

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4.9

68 votes

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Jôen

1959 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

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A Spring Bouquet

1958 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

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Fighting Dog

1964 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Koji Tsuruta · Masayuki Mori · Sumiko Fujita

Synopsis A highly esteemed student falls for Otsuta, a geisha.

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Eriko

1962 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

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Hibana

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

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Midori no nakama

1954 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

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The Snowy Heron

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Keizo Kawasaki · Yosuke Irie · Shûji Sano

Synopsis A 1958 Teinosuke Kinugasa adaptation of an Izumi Kyoka novel.

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Kyohansha

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Hikaru Hoshi

Synopsis Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

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Stop The Old Fox

1959 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

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It Happened in Tokyo

1955 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

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The Song Lantern

1960 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Mayumi Kurata · Raizô Ichikawa · Natsuko Kahara · Eitarô Ozawa

Synopsis Remake of Naruse Mikio's 1943 The Song Lantern.

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Onna mekura monogatari

1965 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Masayo Banri · Mitsuko Han'ya · Hiroko Hanai · Gen Harada

Synopsis At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a businessman named Tsuruko and falls in love with him.

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