Katsumi Yanagijima

August 13, 1950

Gifu, Japan

Katsumi Yanagishima (柳島 克巳, Yanagishima Katsumi; born 1950, Gifu Prefecture), also credited as Katsumi Yanagijima, is a Japanese cinematographer. Yanagishima has worked with Takeshi Kitano in many of his films, including A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine, Zatoichi, Kids Return, Kikujiro and Dolls. He won the Japan Academy Prize for best cinematography for Go! in 2002 and for Zatoichi in 2004. Battle Royale and The Grudge 2 are some of his other known films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katsumi Yanagishima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.