Japanese cinematographer (1902–1990)
Jōji Ohara
Born (1902-09-27 ) 27 September 1902Died 24 June 1990(1990-06-24) (aged 87) Nationality Japanese Occupation Cinematographer
Jōji Ohara (小原 譲治 , Ohara Jōji , 27 September 1902 – 24 June 1990) [1] was a Japanese cinematographer .
Career
Born in Tokyo , Ohara entered the Kamata section of the Shochiku film studios in 1924 and was promoted to cinematographer in 1927.[2] [3] Ohara helped establish the modern touch of the studio's cinematography at Kamata together with Bunjirō Mizutani and Mitsuo Miura ,[4] and is known for the soft tone of his images.[3] He regularly worked for director Heinosuke Gosho on films like The Dancing Girl of Izu , Burden of Life and An Inn at Osaka .[2] [3] [5]
Ohara later worked at Tokyo Hassei Eiga, Toho , Shintoho , and Daiei Film ,[3] and shot films for directors such as Akira Kurosawa , Yasujirō Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi , Kōzaburō Yoshimura , Masahiro Makino and Shōhei Imamura . In 1954, he received the Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography for his work on The Valley Between Love and Death and The Cock Crows Twice .[6]
Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography
Mikiya Tachibana (1946)
Mitsuo Miura (1947)
Takeo Itō (1948)
Asakazu Nakai (1949)
Akira Mimura (1950)
Masao Tamai (1951)
Kazuo Miyagawa (1952)
Yoshio Miyajima (1953)
Jōji Ohara (1954)
Hiroshi Kusuda (1955)
Mitsuo Miura (1956)
Hiroyuki Nagaoka (1957)
Saburō Isayama (1958)
Yoshio Miyajima (1959)
Kazuo Miyagawa (1960)
Yoshio Miyajima (1961)
Yūharu Atsuta (1962)
Tōichirō Narushima (1963)
Shinsaku Himeda (1964)
Yoshio Miyajima (1965)
Masahiko Iimura (1966)
Hiroshi Takemura (1967)
Kiyomi Kuroda (1968)
Kōzō Okazaki (1969)
Asakazu Nakai (1970)
Kōzō Okazaki (1971)
Noritaka Sakamoto (1972-1973)
Kōzō Okazaki (1974-1975)
Kiyoshi Hasegawa (1976)
Kazuo Miyagawa (1977)
Takashi Kawamata (1978)
Setsuo Kobayashi (1979)
Kazue Nagatsuka (1980)
Daisaku Kimura (1981)
Masaki Tamura (1982)
Akira Shiizuka (1983)
Kazuo Miyagawa (1984)
Yonezō Maeda (1985)
Yoshihiro Yamazaki (1986)
Yukio Isohata (1987)
Junichirō Hayashi (1988)
Fujio Morita (1989)
Takao Saito (1990)
Shōji Ueda (1990)
Tetsuo Takaha (1991)
Kōichi Kawakami (1992)
Takeshi Hamada (1993)
Naoki Kayano (1994)
Tatsuo Suzuki (1995)
Osame Maruike (1996)
Daisaku Kimura (1997)
Masaki Tamura (1997)
Hideo Yamamoto (1998)
Yoshitaka Sakamoto (1999)
Shōji Ueda (2000)
Junichi Fujisawa (2001)
Mutsuo Naganuma (2002)
Norimichi Kasamatsu (2003)
Kazuhiro Suzuki (2004)
Kōzō Shibasaki (2005)
Kōichi Kawakami (2006)
Hideo Nakano (2007)
Tomohiko Tsuji (2008)
Daisaku Kimura (2009)
Ryūto Kondō (2010)
Nobuyasu Kita (2011)
Akiko Ashizawa (2012)
Takahiro Imai (2013)
Shiguma Makoto (2014)
Junichi Fujisawa (2015)
Kōichi Saitō (2016)
Yōichi Kamakari (2017)
Yūta Tsukinaga (2018)
Christopher Doyle (2019)
Hiromitsu Nishimura (2020)
Norimichi Kasamatsu (2021)
Yūta Tsukinaga (2022)
Yōichi Kamakari (2023)
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