Cinematographer Miyagawa dies at 91

KYOTO, Japan - Kazuo Miyagawa (Kyodo News morgue photo), a cinematographer who worked together with the late Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, dies of acute renal failure at a Kyoto hospital on Aug. 7. He was 91. Miyazawa films ''Rashomon'' in 1950 directed by Kurosawa.

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