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Known for
Cinematographer
Gender
Male
Birthday
26 June
Location
Seoul, South Korea
Edit pageHiro Narita
Biography
Hiro Narita (born June 26, 1941) is a Japanese-American cinematographer.
An avid movie fan since childhood, Narita decided to go into filmmaking rather than go back into graphic design upon his return to San Francisco in the mid-sixties. After an internship with John Korty and Victor J. Kemper on the Michael Ritchie movie The Candidate in 1971, he photographed the television movie Farewell to Manzanar in 1975, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination.
In 1976, he was one of the camera operators in Martin Scorsese's documentary The Last Waltz about the last concert of The Band. Later, he worked on projects like Apocalypse Now, More American Graffiti, and the Neil Young documentary Rust Never Sleeps. For his cinematography on the movie Never Cry Wolf he won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award in 1983.
In 1989, he photographed the Visual Effects in the Steven Spielberg film Always. In the following years, he was the Director of Photography on successful films like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Dirty Pictures, and The Rocketeer.
Narita served as Director of Photography on the 1997 Live Action Short Film Academy Award-winning Visas and Virtue. He also directed the 1997 hour-long documentary film, Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper.
He has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, lectured, and given master classes at many institutions including Golden Eye in the Republic of Georgia.
He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.
