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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.
Birthplace
Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Filmography
35 films


Cube
2021 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.


The Brain Man
2013 · 2h 3m
country: Japan
A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a mysterious man with keen intelligence and physical power. The psychologist in charge of evaluating him is Dr. Mariko. After the psychiatric examination, she puts toward a hypothesis – “Is it possible he was born without emotions?”


Madea's Big Happy Family
2011 · 1h 46m
country: United States
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley's three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled lives to pay attention to their mother. It is up to Madea, with the help of rowdy Aunt Bam, to bring the clan together and help Shirley deal with her crisis.


Why Did I Get Married Too?
2010 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.


Toad's Oil
2009 · 2h 11m
country: Japan
The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow find a way to benefit spiritually from the experience.


Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout several decades. Recently, their lives have become mired in turmoil as their adult children’s extramarital affairs, unethical business practices, and a dark secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Charlotte and Alice decide to take a breather from it all by making a cross-country road trip in which they rediscover themselves and possibly find a way to save their families from ruin.


Why Did I Get Married?
2007 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their annual week-long reunion, but the mood shifts when one couple's infidelity comes to light. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins to question their own relationship.


Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 · 2h 1m
country: Japan
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.


Daddy's Little Girls
2007 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy League-educated attorney. Monty and Julia couldn't be less alike, but a flame is ignited... touching off a firestorm of love and conflict.


Imprint
2006 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.


Madea's Family Reunion
2006 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her 2 young children and Lisa is engaged to a controlling man that her mother set her up with. In addition, Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.


First Daughter
2004 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, resents their presence and decides she wants to attend school just like a normal student.


Taboo
1999 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering on a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.


Cookie's Fortune
1999 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.


Afterglow
1997 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corporate exec Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes enraptured by Lucky’s wife Phyllis, the four get caught in a love quadrangle that reignites their marriages.


Infinity
1996 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.


Crime of the Century
1996 · 1h 54m
country: United States
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.


Homecoming
1996 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When their mother disappears, a group of siblings are forced to fend for themselves, and make their way on their own. They eventually meet their grandmother, a loner who is reluctant to take them in.


Waiting to Exhale
1995 · 2h 7m
country: United States
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.


Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1994 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.


Pinocchio: The Making of a Masterpiece
1993 · 21m
country: United States
The making of the Disney classic hosted by Robby Benson.


Moving
1993 · 2h 4m
country: Japan
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.


Grand Isle
1991 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A married woman in 1890s Louisiana meets a handsome Creole, reawakening her sexual desires, and is tempted into an affair with the man.


A Rage in Harlem
1991 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.


Convicts
1991 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.


Shadow of China
1990 · 2h 11m
country: Japan
A Chinese immigrant tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism.


Blood Red
1989 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.


Powwow Highway
1989 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.


The Moderns
1988 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.


Trouble in Mind
1985 · 1h 52m
country: United States
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.