JAPAN SOCIETY NYC Honors Late Legendary Cinematographer Miyagawa Kazuo Next Month
In the midst of the 20th century, noted cinematographer Miyagawa Kazuo left a body of work in Japanese cinema now celebrated by film fans to date. Such festivities are now the center of a retrospective courtesy of Japan Society Film in association with The Museum Of Modern Art with a raft of classic titles to be prsented in respective 4K and 35mm formats. In celebration of the 110th anniversary of his birth, Japan Society presents an 11-film retrospective surveying the work of Kazuo Miyagawa (1908-1999), the most influential cinematographer of postwar Japanese cinema. Working intimately with directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa on some of their most important films, Miyagawa pushed Japanese cinema to its highest artistic peaks through his lyrical, innovative and technically flawless camerawork. This career-spanning selection displays his great versatility, including major masterpieces and rarely shown titles, screening in 35mm and new digital restorations. […]