Asakazu Nakai

Japanese cinematographer (1901–1988)

Asakazu Nakai (中井朝一, Nakai Asakazu, 29 August 1901 – 28 February 1988) was a Japanese cinematographer born in Hyōgo Prefecture, best known for his work with Akira Kurosawa.^[1] In 1950, he won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography for Stray Dog.^[2] He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Ran (1985), being the oldest nominee ever in that category.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

1943: The Song Lantern
1946: No Regrets for Our Youth
1947: One Wonderful Sunday
1949: Stray Dog
1952: Ikiru
1954: Seven Samurai
1955: I Live in Fear
1957: Throne of Blood
1961: The End of Summer
1963: High and Low
1965: Red Beard
1975: Dersu Uzala
1985: Ran

References

^ "中井朝一" (in Japanese). kotobank. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
^ "Mainichi Film Concours". IMDb. Retrieved 16 December 2014.

External links

Asakazu Nakai at IMDb

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

1967–2000

Haskell Wexler (1967)
William A. Fraker (1968)
Lucien Ballard (1969)
Néstor Almendros (1970)
Vittorio Storaro (1971)
Sven Nykvist (1972)
Vilmos Zsigmond (1973)
Gordon Willis (1974)
John Alcott (1975)
Haskell Wexler (1976)
Thomas Mauch (1977)
Néstor Almendros (1978)
Caleb Deschanel (1979)
Michael Chapman (1980)
Gordon Willis (1981)
Philippe Rousselot (1982)
Hiro Narita (1983)
Chris Menges (1984)
Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda, and Asakazu Nakai (1985)
Frederick Elmes (1986)
Philippe Rousselot (1987)
Henri Alekan (1988)
Michael Ballhaus (1989)
Peter Suschitzky (1990)
Roger Deakins (1991)
Zhao Fei (1992)
Janusz Kamiński (1993)
Stefan Czapsky (1994)
Tak Fujimoto (1995)
Robby Müller (1996)
Roger Deakins (1997)
John Toll (1998)
Conrad L. Hall (1999)
Agnès Godard (2000)

2001–present

Christopher Doyle and Pin Bing Lee (2001)
Edward Lachman (2002)
Russell Boyd (2003)
Xiaoding Zhao (2004)
Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung (2005)
Emmanuel Lubezki (2006)
Robert Elswit (2007)
Anthony Dod Mantle (2008)
Christian Berger (2009)
Roger Deakins (2010)
Emmanuel Lubezki (2011)
Mihai Mălaimare Jr. (2012)
Bruno Delbonnel (2013)
Dick Pope (2014)
Edward Lachman (2015)
James Laxton (2016)
Roger Deakins (2017)
Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
Claire Mathon (2019)
Joshua James Richards (2020)
Andrew Droz Palermo (2021)
Michał Dymek (2022)
Rodrigo Prieto (2023)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography
Mikiya Tachibana (1946) Mitsuo Miura (1947) Takeo Itō (1948) Asakazu Nakai (1949) Akira Mimura (1950) Masao Tamai (1951) Kazuo Miyagawa (1952) Yoshio Miyajima (1953) Jōji Ohara (1954) Hiroshi Kusuda (1955) Mitsuo Miura (1956) Hiroyuki Nagaoka (1957) Saburō Isayama (1958) Yoshio Miyajima (1959) Kazuo Miyagawa (1960) Yoshio Miyajima (1961) Yūharu Atsuta (1962) Tōichirō Narushima (1963) Shinsaku Himeda (1964) Yoshio Miyajima (1965) Masahiko Iimura (1966) Hiroshi Takemura (1967) Kiyomi Kuroda (1968) Kōzō Okazaki (1969) Asakazu Nakai (1970) Kōzō Okazaki (1971) Noritaka Sakamoto (1972-1973) Kōzō Okazaki (1974-1975) Kiyoshi Hasegawa (1976) Kazuo Miyagawa (1977) Takashi Kawamata (1978) Setsuo Kobayashi (1979) Kazue Nagatsuka (1980) Daisaku Kimura (1981) Masaki Tamura (1982) Akira Shiizuka (1983) Kazuo Miyagawa (1984) Yonezō Maeda (1985) Yoshihiro Yamazaki (1986) Yukio Isohata (1987) Junichirō Hayashi (1988) Fujio Morita (1989) Takao Saito (1990) Shōji Ueda (1990) Tetsuo Takaha (1991) Kōichi Kawakami (1992) Takeshi Hamada (1993) Naoki Kayano (1994) Tatsuo Suzuki (1995) Osame Maruike (1996) Daisaku Kimura (1997) Masaki Tamura (1997) Hideo Yamamoto (1998) Yoshitaka Sakamoto (1999) Shōji Ueda (2000) Junichi Fujisawa (2001) Mutsuo Naganuma (2002) Norimichi Kasamatsu (2003) Kazuhiro Suzuki (2004) Kōzō Shibasaki (2005) Kōichi Kawakami (2006) Hideo Nakano (2007) Tomohiko Tsuji (2008) Daisaku Kimura (2009) Ryūto Kondō (2010) Nobuyasu Kita (2011) Akiko Ashizawa (2012) Takahiro Imai (2013) Shiguma Makoto (2014) Junichi Fujisawa (2015) Kōichi Saitō (2016) Yōichi Kamakari (2017) Yūta Tsukinaga (2018) Christopher Doyle (2019) Hiromitsu Nishimura (2020) Norimichi Kasamatsu (2021) Yūta Tsukinaga (2022) Yōichi Kamakari (2023)

Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography