is a Japanese

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who has worked with many prominent independent directors.

Career

Born in

Fukuoka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...

, Suzuki entered the film industry at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga), where he worked on

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s. Turning freelance and expanding into fiction and avant-garde film, he worked as the cinematographer on many films of the

Art Theatre Guild Art Theatre Guild (ATG) was a film production company in Japan that started in 1961 and ran through to the mid-1980s, releasing mostly Japanese New Wave and arthouse films. History ATG began as an independent agency which distributed foreign fil ...

and of directors such as

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, Kazuhiko Hasegawa, and

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Awards

In 1995, he won the Japan Academy Prize and the

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for best cinematography for the film ''

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''.

Selected filmography

* '' On the Road: A Document'' (ドキュメント路上 Dokyumento rojō) (1964) * '' Silence Has No Wings'' (とべない沈黙 Tobenai chinmoku) (1966) * '' For My Crushed Right Eye'' (つぶれかかった右眼のために Tsuburekakatta migime no tame ni) (1968) * ''

Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 Japanese drama art film directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, loosely adapted from ''Oedipus Rex'' and set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo. It stars Peter as the protagonist, a young transgender woman, and features Osa ...

'' (薔薇の葬列 Bara no Sōretsu) (1969) * ''

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'' (A.K.A. ''Pandemonium'') (修羅) (1971) * '' Pastoral: To Die in the Country'' (田園に死す) (1974) * ''

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'' (卑弥呼) (1974) * '' Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance'' (1974) * ''

Preparation for the Festival is a 1975 Japanese film directed by Kuroki Kazuo. Plot Tateo (Jun Etô), a mother-dominated young man who realizes that he must leave the place he loves, finding it too closed and constricting. With great affection and insight, Kuroki character ...

'' (祭りの準備 Matsuri no junbi (1975) * ''

Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko , also known as ''The Man Who Stole the Sun'', is a 1979 Japanese political satire spy film, directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko and written by Leonard Schrader. Plot Makoto Kido, a high school science and chemistry teacher, has decided to build his o ...

'' (太陽を盗んだ男) (1979) * ''

Yūgure made is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki. Release ''Yūgure made'' was received a roadshow theatrical release in Japan on September 20, 1980 where it was distributed by Toho is a Japanese film, theatre production and distributi ...

'' (夕暮れまで) (1980) * ''

Fruits of Passion ''Fruits of Passion'' (french: Les fruits de la passion; ja, 上海異人娼館／チャイナ・ドール, ) is a 1981 French-Japanese co-production directed by Shūji Terayama and starring Klaus Kinski. The film is loosely based on the novel ...

'' (Les fruits de la passion) (1981) * '' Farewell to the Ark'' (さらば箱舟 Saraba hakobune) (1984) * '' Tomorrow'' (1988) * Dogra Magra (ドグラ・マグラ) (1988) * ''

Childhood Days is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. It was based on a manga of the same name by Motoo Abiko. Synopsis The film is a story of childhood life during wartime Japan. ...

'' (少年時代 Shōnen jidai) (1990) * ''

'' (写楽 Sharaku) (1995) * ''

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'' (瀬戸内ムーンライト・セレナーデ Setouchi mūnraito serenāde) (1997) * ''

Owls' Castle is a 1999 Japanese ninja-themed jidaigeki film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It was co-written by Shinoda and Katsuo Naruse, and stars Kiichi Nakai It is the second adaptation of Ryōtarō Shiba's 1959 novel '' Fukurō no Shiro'', the first being ...

'' (梟の城 Fukurō no shiro) (1999) * ''

Spy Sorge is a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda in 2003, about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge. Shinoda intended the film, a long and lavish production that had only modest critical and commercial success, as his final feature. Plot The film presen ...

'' (スパイ・ソルゲ Supai Soruge) (2003) * ''

The Face of Jizo is a Japanese play written by Hisashi Inoue. Plays * It was performed by Komatsuza as their 34th Play, from September 3 to 18, 1994, directed by Hitoshi Uyama, starring by Masayo Umezawa and Kei Suma. It has been performed frequently not o ...

'' (父と暮らせば Chichi to kuraseba) (2004)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Tatsuo Living people Japanese cinematographers 1935 births People from Fukuoka Prefecture