Life Work of Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo'

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'

A. K.

After the Rain

Rainbow Bridge

Madadayo

Rhapsody in August

Dreams

Oración

Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident

Lake of Illusions

Kagemusha

Shag

Falcons of Edo

Morning for Two

Epic Chushingura

Dodes'ka-den

Red Lion

Bullet Wound

My Brother, My Love

Kojiro

The Killing Bottle

The Mad Atlantic

Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko

Red Beard

Samurai Pirate

Legacy of the 500,000

High and Low

Attack Squadron

Happy Go-Lucky

Sanjuro

Yojimbo

The Bad Sleep Well

Seven Samurai

Takao Saito (Japanese: 斎藤 孝雄, Hepburn: Saitō Takao, March 5, 1929 – December 6, 2014) was a Japanese cinematographer who frequently collaborated with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. After assisting on High and Low (1963) and Red Beard (1965), he became Kurosawa's "cinematographer of choice" after serving as principal cinematographer on Dodes'ka-den (1970). Saito was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work in the film Ran (1985).



Takao Saitō