A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Akira Sakoh
Akira Sakou
Camera Operator:
1993 Moving
Cinematography:
1993 Moving
2008 Shaolin Girl
2019 The Takatsu River
Director of Photography:
1990 Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
1993 Moving
1995 Endless Waltz
1995 Female Teacher's Diary Forbidden Sex
1997 End of Our Own Real
1998 Tomie
1999 Score 2: The Big Fight
2000 Film Noir
2001 Shokoki!
2002 Ping Pong
2002 Returner
2004 Sea Monkey
2005 Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
2006 Limit of Love: Umizaru
2006 Udon
2007 Waruboro
2008 DIVE!!
2008 Shaolin Girl
2009 Feel the Wind
2009 Time Lost, Time Found
2010 Box!
2010 Umizaru 3: The Last Message
2011 Princess Toyotomi
2011 Unfair: the answer
2012 Key of Life
2013 Platinum Data
2015 Again
2015 The Curtain Rises
2015 Unfair: the end
2016 Shippu Rondo
2017 Ajin: Demi-Human
2017 Mixed Doubles
2017 Tatara Samurai
2019 The Takatsu River
2022 Kingdom 2: Far and Away
2023 Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
2024 The Yin-Yang Master Zero
Steadicam Operator:
1990 Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
1993 Moving
1995 Endless Waltz
1995 Female Teacher's Diary Forbidden Sex
1997 End of Our Own Real
1998 Tomie
1999 Score 2: The Big Fight
2000 Film Noir
2001 Shokoki!
2002 Ping Pong
2002 Returner
2003 The Blue Light
2004 Sea Monkey
2005 Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
2006 Limit of Love: Umizaru
2006 Udon
2007 Waruboro
2008 DIVE!!
2008 Shaolin Girl
2009 Feel the Wind
2009 Time Lost, Time Found
2010 Box!
2010 Umizaru 3: The Last Message
2011 Princess Toyotomi
2011 Unfair: the answer
2012 Key of Life
2013 Platinum Data
2015 Again
2015 The Curtain Rises
2015 Unfair: the end
2016 Shippu Rondo
2017 Ajin: Demi-Human
2017 Mixed Doubles
2017 Tatara Samurai
2019 The Takatsu River
2022 Kingdom 2: Far and Away
2023 Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
2024 The Yin-Yang Master Zero
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
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.