Why this filmmaker matters
Kazuo Yamada 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.
Kazuo Yamada 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.
Yamada 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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Sofia Coppola
Director
3 shared titles · Lost in Translation

Akihiko Hirata
Actor
2 shared titles · Son of Godzilla

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
2 shared titles · Son of Godzilla

Shinichi Sekizawa
Screenplay
2 shared titles · Son of Godzilla

Jun Fukuda
Director
2 shared titles · Son of Godzilla

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · Son of Godzilla

Hiroshi Inagaki
Director
2 shared titles · Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
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