Shinsaku Himeda

Shinsaku Himeda was a Japanese cinematographer from Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture. Himeda dropped out of Teikoku Art University and started working as an assistant cameraman at the Nikkatsu Tamagawa studio in 1937. In 1949, he promoted to cinematographer.

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiko Obayashi
CAST:  Ikko Furuya  •  Kunie Tanaka  •  Hideko Yoshida  •  Miyoko Akaza

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiko Obayashi
CAST:  Ikko Furuya  •  Kunie Tanaka  •  Hideko Yoshida  •  Miyoko Akaza