Hiro Narita

Hiro Narita (born 26 June 1941 in Seoul, Korea) is a cameraman who works in the United States since the 1960s. He was born in Korea but has Japanese parents.

Life

Narita grew from 1945 to 1957 in Japan and moved to the United States. In 1964, he studied Graphic Design and Illustration Story at the San Francisco Art Institute. After his time as a cameraman in the Army from 1964 to 1966 he was in documentaries for the BBC, for the Boston television station West Great Blue Hill ( WBGH ) and for the company David Wolper Productions involved. Following an assistant at John Korty and Victor J. Kemper on Michael Ritchie film Bill McKay - The candidate in 1972, he worked on the 1975 TV movie Farewell to Manzanar, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. In 1976 he was one of the cameramen in Martin Scorsese's documentary The Last Waltz. Later employees followed in projects such as Apocalypse Now, The Party is over ... More American Graffiti and the Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps documentation. For his cinematography in the film Never Cry Wolf, he was in 1984 awarded the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award. In 1989, he was the Steven Spielberg movie Always - The Fire Angel by Montana cameraman for the visual effects. In the following years he photographed as chief cameraman successful films like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and The Rocketeer.

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