Toyomichi Kurita

Toyomichi Kurita
栗田 豊道
Born
Toyomichi Kurita

1950 (age 73–74)
Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Alma materAFI Conservatory
OccupationCinematographer
Years active1974–present
AwardsIndependent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography
1986 Trouble in Mind
Japanese name
Kanji栗田 豊道
Hiraganaくりた とよみち
Katakanaクリタ トヨミチ
Transcriptions
RomanizationKurita Toyomichi

Toyomichi Kurita (栗田 豊道 Kurita Toyomichi; born 1950) is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked in both Japan and the United States.[1][2][3][4]

Kurita won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for Trouble in Mind (1985) with two additional nominations for The Moderns (1988) and Powwow Highway (1989), and was nominated for a Japanese Academy Award for his work on Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo. He has collaborated with directors like Oshima, Alan Rudolph, Paul Schrader, Tyler Perry, Robert Altman, and Takashi Miike. He is an alumnus of the American Film Institute Conservatory.

  1. ^ "Toyomichi Kurita Filmography and Movies". Fandango. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  2. ^ "Toyomichi Kurita". Cinematographers.nl. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
  3. ^ Toyomichi Kurita at IMDb
  4. ^ Thomas, Kevin (November 17, 2000). "Movie Review; The Allure of a Geisha, the Sword of a Samurai; 'Taboo' is the complex tale of an attractive, competent recruit amid a macho militia in Kyoto". L. A.Times. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2011.