Name Shigeru Komatsubara | Role Cinematographer | |
Nominations Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Movies The Eel, Dr Akagi, Warm Water Under a, The Ballad of Narayama, Moonlight Whispers Similar People Daisuke Tengan, Shohei Imamura, Masaya Nakamura, Sumiko Sakamoto, Akihiko Shiota |
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.
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, and won the Japan Movie Critics Award for best cinematography in 2008 for Koi suru tomato.