A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Toyomichi Kurita (born 1950 in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan) is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked in both Japan and the USA. He has frequently worked with American directors, Alan Rudolph and Tyler Perry, after graduating from the AFI Conservancy in 1981. In Japan, he has frequently collaborated with Takashi Miike.
Camera Operator:
1984 Big Wave
Director of Photography:
1984 Big Wave
1985 Trouble in Mind
1988 The Moderns
1989 Blood Red
1989 Powwow Highway
1990 Shadow of China
1991 A Rage in Harlem
1991 Convicts
1991 Grand Isle
1993 Moving
1993 Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Waiting to Exhale
1996 Crime of the Century
1996 Infinity
1997 Afterglow
1999 Cookie's Fortune
1999 Taboo
2004 First Daughter
2006 Imprint
2006 Madea's Family Reunion
2007 Daddy's Little Girls
2007 Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 Why Did I Get Married?
2008 Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2010 Why Did I Get Married Too?
2011 Madea's Big Happy Family
2021 Cube
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1984 Big Wave
1985 Hard Rock Zombies
1985 Trouble in Mind
1988 The Moderns
1989 Blood Red
1989 Powwow Highway
1990 Shadow of China
1991 A Rage in Harlem
1991 Convicts
1991 Grand Isle
1993 Moving
1993 Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Waiting to Exhale
1996 Crime of the Century
1996 Infinity
1997 Afterglow
1999 Cookie's Fortune
1999 Taboo
2004 First Daughter
2006 Imprint
2006 Madea's Family Reunion
2007 Daddy's Little Girls
2007 Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 Why Did I Get Married?
2008 Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2010 Why Did I Get Married Too?
2011 Madea's Big Happy Family
2021 Cube
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.