Shigeru Komatsubara

Shigeru Komatsubara (小松原茂, Komatsubara Shigeru, born 1949) is a Japanese cinematographer. His work has mostly been in the action genre, but his first feature film was as an assistant on The Pornographers by Shohei Imamura. He worked on early Takashi Miike straight-to-video films such as Lady Hunter and A Human Murder Weapon, and then resumed working with Imamura as chief cinematographer for some of his last films such as Unagi and Dr. Akagi. He also did the cinematography for the 2013 TV series Neko Zamurai starring Kazuki Kitamura.[1]

Awards

He received a Japan Film Technical Award (Nihon Eiga Gijutsushō) from the Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan for the cinematography for Unagi in 1997,[2] and won the Japan Movie Critics Award for best cinematography in 2008 for Koi suru tomato.[3]

Filmography
Year Title Director
1983 The Ballad of Narayama Shohei Imamura
1991 Toppū! Minipato tai - Aikyacchi Jankushon Takashi Miike
1991 Lady Hunter: Prelude To Murder Takashi Miike
1992 A Human Murder Weapon Takashi Miike
1995 Bad Guy Beach Shō Aikawa
1996 Zero Woman: Assassin Lovers Masahide Kuwabara
1997 Unagi Shohei Imamura
1998 Dr. Akagi Shohei Imamura
1999 Moonlight Whispers Akihiko Shiota
2001 Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Shohei Imamura
2006 13 no Tsuki Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
2007 Kyonyu wo business ni shita otoko Takeshi Watanabe
2007 Lemon no Koro Yuki Iwata
2008 Oka wo koete Banmei Takahashi
2008 Dōsōkai Takayuki Takuma
2009 Dōtei Hōrōki Yûichi Onuma
2013 Aragure Hajime Gonno
2013 Jinjin Daiki Yamada
2013 Tobe! Dakota Seiji Aburatani

References
  1. "Neko zamurai". IMDb.
  2. "Nihon eiga gijutsushō jushōsha ichiran" (in Japanese). Nihon Eiga Terebi Gijutsu Kyōkai. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. "Kako no jushō sakuhin 2000-2009" (in Japanese). Nihon Eiga Hihyōka Taishō. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
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