Miyagawa at MoMa – A Cinematographer for Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Ozu, Kon Ichikawa etc.
Yojimbo -( Kurosawa, cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa )
Sansho Dayu (Kenji Mizoguchi, cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa)
At MoMa calendar
Kazuo Miyagawa: Japan’s
Greatest Cinematographer
Through April 29
The Museum of Modern Art
Kazuo Miyagawa (Japan Society)
Born in Kyoto on 25 February 1908, he was introduced at the age of 12 to the art of Sumi-e, a style of ink wash painting in which the dilution of the ink and the mastery of the brush allows the artist to obtain every possible shade of grey. Miyagawa would later state that “it was my training in ink wash painting that really taught me how to see.”
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Kenji Mizoguchi (on the chair), Miyagawa (behind) and actresses on the set of his film “Street of Shame (Akasen Chitai)
Ayako Wakao 
with Michio Kogure..from Sisters of Gion.
Irezumi 
(Directed by Yasuzo Masumura)
Miyagawa filmed Ayako Wakao in Ozu’s Floating Weed, Gion’s Sisters.
Floating Weeds 
Ozu Yasujiro and Kazuo Miyagawa
Anonymous source 
Another of Miyagawa’s masterful achievements was on Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad (1965), where he supervised 164 cameramen, who used 234 different lenses to capture the dramatic intensity of competition in extreme close-up.
Tokyo Olympiad – Kon Ichikawa