Koshiro Otsu 大津 幸四郎 Otsu Koshiro 1934 28 November 2014 was a Japanese cinematographer and film director Otsu is one of the most famous cinematographers in Japanese film history He joined Iwanami Productions in 1958 After going freelance he worked with legendary director Ogawa Shinsuke on The Oppressed Students 1967 and Summer in Narita 1968 with Tsuchimoto Noriaki on Prehistory of the Partisans 1969 Minamata The Victims and Their World 1971 and many other films