is a Japanese cinematographer. His work has mostly been in the action genre, but his first feature film was as an assistant on ''

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'' by Shohei Imamura. He worked on early

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straight-to-video films such as ''

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'' and ''

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'', and then resumed working with Imamura as chief cinematographer for some of his last films such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. He also did the cinematography for the 2013 TV series ''Neko Zamurai'' starring

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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 ''

'' in 1997, and won the Japan Movie Critics Award for best cinematography in 2008 for '' Koi suru tomato''.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Komatsubara, Shigeru Japanese cinematographers 1949 births Living people