Masaki Tamura (田村正毅 Tamura Masaki, born 1939) is a Japanese cinematographer.
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Born in Aomori Prefecture, Tamura early on worked at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga), where as an assistant he helped photograph documentary films.[1] He became a full-fledged cinematographer working on many of the documentaries of Shinsuke Ogawa. At the same time, he began photographing feature fiction films by directors such as Kazuo Kuroki, Yōichi Higashi, and Toshiya Fujita. He particularly became known for his collaborations with Mitsuo Yanagimachi. After working with many famous directors such as Jūzō Itami, Sōgo Ishii, Go Takamine, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Kaizō Hayashi, he began working in the 1990s with a new generation of directors, such as Nobuhiro Suwa, Naomi Kawase, and Makoto Sato. His collaborations with Shinji Aoyama have been notable in recent years.
In 1982, he won the Mainichi Film Award for best cinematography for the film Farewell to the Land.[2] The same year, he won the best cinematography award at the Yokohama Film Festival for Farewell to the Land and A Japanese Village - Furuyashikimura.[3]