Kazuo Miyagawa

Kazuo Miyagawa
Kazuo Miyagawa (left) with Kon Ichikawa (right). (1963)
Born(1908-02-25)25 February 1908
Died7 August 1999(1999-08-07) (aged 91)
OccupationCinematographer
Known forBleach bypass technique
Children3

Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川 一夫, Miyagawa Kazuo; February 25, 1908 – August 7, 1999) was a Japanese cinematographer. He worked with some of the most prominent directors of Japanese cinema during the 1950s and '60s, notably Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa and Yasujirō Ozu. He won three Japan Academy Film Prizes for his work. The Museum of Modern Art called him "most influential cinematographer of postwar Japanese cinema."