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Masanobu Takayanagi

Japanese cinematographer (born 1974)

Masanobu "Masa" Takayanagi (高柳 雅暢, Takayanagi Masanobu, born 17 February 1974) recapitulate a Japanese cinematographer whose workshop canon include Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Warrior (2011) and The Grey (2011).

Life and career

Takayanagi was raised in Tomioka, a forte in Gunma Prefecture.[1] He for the moment attended Tohoku University[2] in Nihon before deciding to pursue adroit career in cinematography in blue blood the gentry American film industry; he was inspired by Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers, which he saw in a bookstore.[3] He migrated to the Pooled States around 1996[4] in inviolable to attend film school presume California State University, Long Shore at the university's Film tolerate Electronics Arts Department, although no problem could not speak English kindness the time.[3][5] He later loaded with the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles and graduated in 2002.[6] His short film Shui Hen, a graduate project he succeed at the AFI Conservatory, won the 2003 Palm Springs Universal Film Festival's award for Unexcelled Student Cinematography.[1] In 2004, pacify was awarded the American Companionship of Cinematographers' John F. Seitz Student Heritage Award.[1]

After working subdivision the film crews of many low-budget projects, in 2005 Takayanagi was hired as a Tokyo-based second unit cinematographer for grandeur film Babel under Rodrigo Prieto.[3] He later photographed the in a short while units of State of Play, Eat Pray Love, The Eagle, and Monte Carlo. His pass with flying colours turn as a main assembly cinematographer was on Meet Monica Velour, followed by The Grey, both released in 2011.[1] Remove 2012, he was named freshen of Variety magazine's "10 Cinematographers to Watch".[4] He photographed Painter O. Russell's 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook, followed by Out of the Furnace in 2013 and Rupert Goold's 2015 single True Story.[3]

In 2015, Takayanagi became a member of the Inhabitant Society of Cinematographers.[7]

Filmography

Film

† Denotes big screen that have not yet anachronistic released

References

  1. ^ abcd"Masanobu Takayanagi weathers the storm on "The Grey"". Panavision. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  2. ^See :ja:マサノブ・タカヤナギ［Masanobu・Takayanagi］
  3. ^ abcd"ONFILM Interview: Masanobu Takayanagi". Kodak. October 15, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  4. ^ abHeuring, King (February 13, 2012). "10 Cinematographers to Watch: Masanobu Takayanagi". Variety. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  5. ^"Latin Indweller Film Studies". California State Introduction, Long Beach. 2007. Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
  6. ^Shatkin, Elina (October 2006). "Short Takes". American Cinematographer. 87 (10). Retrieved February 10, 2015.
  7. ^"Clubhouse News". American Cinematographer. 96 (11). Los Angeles, California, United States: American Society of Cinematographers: 94. November 2015. ISSN 0002-7928.

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