Why this filmmaker matters
Atsushi Okui has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
Performer
Cinematographer in the Nutevio catalogue.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Atsushi Okui has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Okui set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Hayao Miyazaki
Director
15 shared titles · Spirited Away

Toshio Suzuki
Producer
9 shared titles · Spirited Away

Takeshi Seyama
Editor
8 shared titles · Spirited Away

Joe Hisaishi
Original Music Composer
6 shared titles · Spirited Away

Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Executive Producer
5 shared titles · Spirited Away

Koji Hoshino
Producer
3 shared titles · When Marnie Was There

Tatsuya Gashuin
Actor
2 shared titles · Spirited Away

Ryunosuke Kamiki
Actor
2 shared titles · Spirited Away

Takuya Kimura
Actor
2 shared titles · The Boy and the Heron

Akihiro Miwa
Actor
2 shared titles · Howl's Moving Castle

Akio Otsuka
Actor
2 shared titles · Howl's Moving Castle

Tsunehiko Kamijô
Actor
2 shared titles · Porco Rosso
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