Koshiro Otsu
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Biography
Koshiro Otsu (大津 幸四郎 Otsu Koshiro, 1934 - 28 November 2014) was a Japanese cinematographer and film director. Otsu is one of the most famous cinematographers in Japanese film history. He joined Iwanami Productions in 1958. After going freelance, he worked with legendary director Ogawa Shinsuke on The Oppressed Students (1967) and Summer in Narita (1968), with Tsuchimoto Noriaki on Prehistory of the Partisans (1969), Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), and many other films.
On the crew 38
A Movie Capital
1991
Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
1978
Report from Haneda
1967
Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said
2006
Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa
1991
The Oppressed Students
1967
Summer in Sanrizuka
1968
Artists in Wonderland
1999
The Scene of the Soul
1991
The Silence
2017
Japan Year Zero
1968
Hanako
2001
Business Trip
1989
Prehistory of the Partisans
1969
When the Night Breaks
1973
Nuchigafu - Life is a Treasure
2012
Strike the White Ball
1980
A Bridge of Tears
1983
Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
1975
Fence
2008
ドキュメント’８９脱原発元年
1989
Barefoot Gen's Hiroshima
2011
Zero Dead: A Record of Traffic-Related Head Injury
1966
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
1971
The Old Man and the Sea
1990
The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories
2014
The Shiranui Sea
1975
Those Who Would Be Einstein
1994
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life
1973
The Constitution of Japan
2005
The Other Hiroshima: Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story
2005
Yuntanza Okinawa
1987
Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
2002
Dolce
2000
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy
1975
Message from Minamata to the World
1976
My Town, My Youth
1978
Kazuo Ohno: Like a Soliloquy
2007