Koshiro Otsu

Personal Info

Known For Camera

Gender Male

Also Known As 大津 幸四郎, Kôshirô Ôtsu

Koshiro Otsu

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.

Known For

Camera

2014
The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories

as Director of Photography

2011
Barefoot Gen's Hiroshima

as Camera Technician

2006
Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said

as Director of Photography

2005
The Constitution of Japan

as Director of Photography

2005
Ohno Kazuo: Hitori-goto no yō ni

as Director of Photography

2002
2001
Hanako

as Director of Photography

2000
Dolce

as Director of Photography

1999
Artists in Wonderland

as Camera Operator

1991
A Movie Capital

as Director of Photography

1989
Business Trip

as Director of Photography

1987
Yuntanza Okinawa

as Director of Photography

1983
A Bridge of Tears

as Director of Photography

1980
Strike the White Ball

as Director of Photography

1976
Message from Minamata to the World

as Director of Photography

1975
The Shiranui Sea

as Director of Photography

1971
Minamata: The Victims and Their World

as Director of Photography

1967
The Oppressed Students

as Director of Photography

Crew

2017
The Silence

as Cinematography

2012
2008
Fence

as Cinematography

1994
Those Who Would Be Einstein

as Cinematography

1991
The Scene of the Soul

as Cinematography

1990
The Old Man and the Sea

as Cinematography

1978
My Town, My Youth

as Cinematography

1975
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy

as Cinematography

1969
Japan Year Zero

as Cinematography

1969
Prehistory of the Partisans

as Cinematography

1967
Report from Haneda

as Cinematography