Kimio Watanabe
Born: 1918-01-01 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1983-12-31
Known For: Camera
Biography
Known more as a cinematographer throughout the 1940s to the 1960s in Japan, Kimio Watanabe (1918–1983) has a decorated career in film. One of his productions, The White Heron, was screened and nominated for the Palme d’Or in the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Watanabe also lent his skills to Kon Ichikawa – the director of Tokyo Olympiad – in his classic Bridge of Japan.
Filmography
1971
- The Cliff of Time ... (Director of Photography)
1969
- The Falcon Fighters ... (Director of Photography)
- The Sea Anemone ... (Director of Photography)
1968
- School for Thieves ... (Director of Photography)
1967
- The Sister Gamblers ... (Director of Photography)
- The Last Loyalty Offering ... (Director of Photography)
1966
- Patriotism ... (Director of Photography)
1965
- The Story of a Blind Woman ... (Director of Photography)
- Tokyo Paralympics: Festival of Love and Glory ... (Screenplay)
1964
- Clamouring Canines ... (Director of Photography)
- Black Challenger ... (Director of Photography)
1963
- When Women Lie ... (Director of Photography)
- Zero Escape Visibility ... (Director of Photography)
- Teinen Taishoku ... (Director of Photography)
1962
- Akiko ... (Director of Photography)
- Eriko ... (Director of Photography)
- Night Mist Makes Women Cry ... (Director of Photography)
1960
- The Wandering Princess ... (Director of Photography)
- The Song Lantern ... (Director of Photography)
1958
- The Snowy Heron ... (Director of Photography)
- Tainted Flowers ... (Director of Photography)
- Accomplice ... (Director of Photography)
- Symphony of Love ... (Director of Photography)
- Dohyō monogatari ... (Director of Photography)
1957
- Furusato no tōdai ... (Director of Photography)
- The Betrothed ... (Director of Photography)
- Morning Whistling ... (Director of Photography)
- Duel at Noon ... (Director of Photography)
- Chūzaisho nikki ... (Director of Photography)
1956
- I Love You ... (Director of Photography)
- Ma no hanayome ishō ... (Director of Photography)
- Spark ... (Director of Photography)
- Warning from Space ... (Director of Photography)
- Bridge of Japan ... (Director of Photography)
- Outlaw island ... (Director of Photography)
1955
- Driving Like Mad ... (Director of Photography)
- Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi ... (Director of Photography)
- The Romance of Yushima ... (Director of Photography)
1954
- Midori no nakama ... (Director of Photography)
- The Moon Over the Ruined Castle ... (Director of Photography)
- Four Mothers ... (Director of Photography)
1953
- Haha no mizūmi ... (Director of Photography)
- Shinkon noroke bushi ... (Director of Photography)
- Red Camellia ... (Director of Photography)
- Hanagata kashu: Nanatsu no uta ... (Director of Photography)
- Kurohyō ... (Director of Photography)
1952
- Daigaku no kotengu ... (Director of Photography)
- Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi ... (Director of Photography)
- Miss Hanaogi and Santa ... (Director of Photography)
- Haha yamahiko ... (Director of Photography)
1951
- Saijoke no kyoen ... (Director of Photography)
- Koi no Oranda-zaka ... (Director of Photography)
1950
- Designated Criminal ... (Director of Photography)
- Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuru ... (Director of Photography)
- City of the Spider ... (Director of Photography)
1949
- Kyō ware renaisu ... (Director of Photography)
1948
- Platform at Night ... (Director of Photography)
- Butai wa mawaru ... (Director of Photography)
- Jōnetsu no ningyo ... (Director of Photography)
1947
- Tokyo Night ... (Director of Photography)
- The Little Green Box ... (Director of Photography)
1946
- Ojōsama o te o ... (Director of Photography)