Tak Fujimoto Filmography

Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: Japanese-American director of photography Tak Fujimoto may have held a degree from the London film school, but his acceptance into the clannish, inbred American Society of Cinematographers was a hard-won victory. He worked as assistant to Haskell Wexler in television, then worked the "B"-picture...Read More

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The Happening

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley

Synopsis: Lady in the Water director M. Night Shyamalan puts PG-13 suspense on pause to tell this grim apocalyptic tale about a family fleeing a natural disaster that poses a grave threat to the whole of humanity. Philadelphia high-school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is discussing the Read More

6/13/08
The Great Buck Howard

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, Ricky Jay, Debra Monk

Synopsis: A young man on his way up hitches his wagon to a middle-aged star on his way down in a comedy from writer and director Sean McGinly. Troy Gable (Colin Hanks) is a guy in his early twenties who has dropped out of law school and is pondering his next move. Troy has an interest in working in the Read More

1/1/08
John Adams

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane, Danny Huston, David Morse, Sarah Polley, Tom Wilkinson, Rufus Sewell

Synopsis: Emmy Award-winning director Tom Hopper takes the helm for this epic, seven-part miniseries produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and presenting American history as seen from the perspective of fiercely independent founding father John Adams (Paul Giamatti). Based on author David Read More

2008
Breach

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Gary Cole, Caroline Dhavernas

Synopsis: Shattered Glass director Billy Ray directs Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe in this fact-based drama concerning the FBI traitor who carried out what many historians refer to as the most notable national security breach in U.S. history. A key member of the FBI's elite Soviet Analytical Unit, Robert Read More

2/16/07
The Final Cut

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, James Caviezel, Mimi Kuzyk, Thom Bishops

Synopsis: First-time filmmaker Omar Naim writes and directs the sci-fi drama The Final Cut. Set in the near future, the story concerns a microchip that is capable of recording a person's entire life. Robin Williams plays Alan Hakman, an editor who cuts together the footage to make pleasant movies for Read More

10/15/04
The Manchurian Candidate

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme directed this updated remake of John Frankenheimer's 1962 cult favorite The Manchurian Candidate, a pioneering examination of political conspiracy and psychological reconditioning. Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) are two soldiers Read More

7/30/04
The Truth About Charlie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins, Park Joong-Hoon

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme filters the classic Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant vehicle Charade through the influence of the French New Wave in this stylish romantic thriller. Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) has been having second thoughts about her marriage to the often enigmatic art dealer Charlie (Stephen Dillane Read More

10/25/02
Signs

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Synopsis: Following the smash hit The Sixth Sense (1999) and the under-performing follow-up Unbreakable (2000), directing phenom M. Night Shyamalan returns to the summer box office landscape that served as the backdrop for his cinematic breakthrough. In Signs, another paranormal outing for the Read More

8/2/02
The Replacements

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Orlando Jones, Jon Favreau, Brooke Langton

Synopsis: The 1987 National Football League players' strike inspired this sports-themed comedy. The Washington Sentinels are one of the strongest teams in pro football, and coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) and quarterback Eddie Martel (Brett Cullen) look like they're on the road to the Super Bowl -- until Read More

8/11/00
The Sixth Sense

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg

Synopsis: In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his usual area of expertise. Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is six-years-old and claims to see the spirits of dead people all around him. It seems that Read More

8/6/99
Beloved

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme directed this adaptation of Toni Morrison's fact-based fifth novel (winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize), written in an experimental stream-of-consciousness flow and capturing the impact and aftermath of slavery on the human soul. In 1873, middle-aged Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives near Read More

10/16/98
A Thousand Acres

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards, Jr., Jennifer Jason Leigh, Colin Firth

Synopsis: A feminist farm belt version of William Shakespeare's King Lear, this film is based on Jane Smiley's novel about an aging farmer and his three daughters. The Lear-like farmer, Larry Cook (Jason Robards), decides to divide up his thousand-acre farm among his three daughters, but he disinherits his Read More

1997
That Thing You Do!

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry

Synopsis: Tom Hanks made his directorial debut in this bright comedy set in the mid-1960's about a rock group and their brief fling with fame. Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) works as a salesman at his father's appliance store and plays the drums in his spare time, fancying himself a jazz musician. One Read More

1996
Devil in a Blue Dress

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lisa Nicole Carson, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: Denzel Washington stars in this adaptation of the novel by African-American crime author Walter Mosley, the first of his stories to reach the screen. Ezekiel Rawlins (Washington), known to his friends as "Easy," has just lost his job at an aircraft plant in post-WW II Los Angeles, a time when Read More

1995
Grumpier Old Men

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: In this sequel to the surprise hit Grumpy Old Men, life goes on much as it usually does in Wabasha County, Minnesota, with the only notable differences being that John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are getting along all right (or at least to the extent that they're Read More

1995
Philadelphia

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The Read More

1993
Night and the City

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Night and the City is a remake of the 1950 Richard Widmark vehicle of the same name. Major changes: As played by Robert DeNiro, the Widmark character, one Harry Fabian, is no longer merely a two-bit tout but instead a two-bit lawyer; and the film is set in New York, as opposed to the London Read More

10/16/92
Gladiator

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., James Marshall, Robert Loggia, Ossie Davis, Brian Dennehy, Cara Buono

Synopsis: Gladiator is the kind of boxing movie that goes that extra mile -- a self-loathing boxing saga that relishes in bare-knuckled sucker punches, illegal eye-rubs, and gentlemen boxers who obey the Marquis of Queensbury rules by drop-kicking opponents when the are not only down but unconscious. James Marshall Read More

3/6/92
Crooked Hearts

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Berg, Peter Coyote, Noah Wyle

Synopsis: Adapted from the Robert Boswell novel, the film focuses on a very troubled family beset from all sides by conflict, arguments and scandal. The father (Peter Coyote) brings his wife (Cindy Pickett) and two sons (Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Berg) to Washington State to begin a new life, but finds that Read More

5/31/91
The Silence of the Lambs

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith

Synopsis: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then Read More

2/14/91
Miami Blues

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nora Dunn, Charles Napier

Synopsis: Based on the late Charles Willeford's series of hard-boiled crime novels featuring Miami cop Hoke Moseley, the Jonathan Demme-produced Miami Blues opens with the prison release of Frederick Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a deranged killer who has barely de-boarded his plane before he's killed a Hare Read More

4/20/90
Cast the First Stone

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jill Eikenberry, Joe Spano, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Returning from a Catholic retreat, public school teacher Jill Eikenberry picks up a hitchhiker--who repays her hospitality by brutally raping her. Plunged into shame and self-hatred by the incident, she does not report the attack to the police. Only when she becomes pregnant does she tell the Read More

1989
Sweet Hearts Dance

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Perkins, Kate Reid

Synopsis: This gentle comedy drama explores aspects of love and relationships by featuring two parallel tales, both occurring in the same Vermont town. In one, the boredom faced by a married pair of high-school sweethearts leads to the destruction of their marriage. At the same time, their closest friend Read More

9/23/88
Married to the Mob

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the Read More

8/19/88
Cocoon: The Return

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis: Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling too long on Cocoon #1, we can observe that it ended with a group of senior citizens heading for the distant planet of Antarea, hoping to find a new, rewarding and elongated Read More

1988
Backfire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Karen Allen, Keith Carradine, Jeff Fahey, Bernie Casey, Dean Paul Martin

Synopsis: Wealthy-but-troubled Vietnam vet Jeff Fahey, his trailer-trash wife Karen Allen, and drifter Keith Carradine are the characters essential to the action in Backfire. Fahey's horrific flashbacks to his days in Nam plunge him into a catatonic state. Though he has previously drawn up a document Read More

1987
Something Wild

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive Read More

11/7/86
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey

Synopsis: Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last grand duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day bacchanal through the Read More

6/11/86
Pretty in Pink

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts

Synopsis: John Hughes crafts an exemplary '80s Brat Pack romance out of the standard Cinderella story in Pretty in Pink. Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenager who lives in the dingy part of town with her terminally underemployed dad (Harry Dean Stanton). She works at a record store with eccentric Ionia Read More

2/28/86
Blackout

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Widmark, Dameon Clarke, Keith Carradine, Martina Deignan, Kathleen Quinlan, Paul Drake, Michael Beck, Lawrence Lott, Ken Kimmins

Synopsis: A woman fears that her amnesia-stricken husband may be a serial killer in this made-for-cable thriller. After family man Ed Vinson gruesomely murders his wife and kids and skips town, police investigator Joe Steiner (Richard Widmark) becomes obsessed with capturing the monster -- even after he's Read More

1985
Seduced

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Just who is seduced in the made-for-TV Seduced? Technically, it is Vicki Orloff (Cybill Shepherd), who once had a torrid affair with attorney Mike Riordan (Gregory Harrison). But when Vicki meets Mike again after several years, it is Riordan who is seduced into a most dangerous situation. Vicki Read More

1985
The Seduction of Gina

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, Michael Brandon, Fredric Lehne

Synopsis: The title of The Seduction of Gina is the most tawdry of come-ons: this TV movie was better served (though perhaps not as attractive to the casual viewer) under its original title, Another High Roller. Gina (Valerie Bertinelli), married to a feckless intern, is shy and withdrawn. Upon Read More

1984
Swing Shift

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme made one of his more conventional movies with Swing Shift, an examination of life on the American home front during WWII. Goldie Hawn, who also served as the film's producer, stars as Kay, a woman who takes a job on the line at a plant producing war planes after her husband Read More

1984
Heart Like a Wheel

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Hoyt Axton, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles, Shirley works hard to qualify for the major auto race competitions of America. Firmly in her cheering section is her dad (Hoyt Axton), and--at least at first--her husband Read More

1983
Divorce Wars: A Love Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This superior ABC Theatre of the Month presentation is not so much about the reasons for divorce as it is about the tensions surrounding the actual litigation. Tom Selleck plays a topnotch Seattle divorce lawyer, juggling several delicate cases at once. Arrogantly secure in his legal prowess Read More

1982
National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Riegert, Diane Lane, Candy Clark, Teresa Ganzel, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: Originally divided into four segments and now cut to three, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies is a story about a man who is determined to get in touch with himself and sends his wife away so she can do the same thing. The next tale features a female business magnate who wreaks appropriate Read More

1981
Where the Buffalo Roam

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Based on the writings and experiences of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roam details the adventures of Thompson (Bill Murray) and his attorney (Peter Boyle), whose character is rewritten as Mexican-American rather than Samoan, as they pillage and plunder their way across Read More

1980
Borderline

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Ed Harris, Karmin Murcelo, Bert Remsen, Enrique J. Castillo, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: Charles Bronson switches from his traditional role as a vigilante to playing an actual lawman in this crime drama. Jeb Maynard (Bronson) is a border patrol agent who is trying to stem the tide of illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. Jeb is hot on the trail of Hotchkiss (Ed Harris), a Read More

1980
Melvin and Howard

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Jack Kehoe, Michael J. Pollard, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. Read More

1980
This Man Stands Alone

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This socially conscious drama is set during the Civil Rights Movement and chronicles the endeavors of a black minister to run for sheriff in a Southern county. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Some Kind of Miracle

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: David Dukes stars as a marriage-bound young man who is rendered a paraplegic by a surfing accident. Dukes fears that his paralysis has resulted in impotence. His future wife Andrea Marcovicci is similarly fearful. Without the help of counselors or physical therapists, the unmarried couple manages Read More

1979
The Last Embrace

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, Sam Levene, John Glover

Synopsis: In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a Read More

1979
Stony Island

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Davis, Edward "Stony" Robinson, George Englund, Gene Barge, Ronnie Barron

Synopsis: This independent project was originally released as My Main Man From Stony Island. Filmed in Chicago, the story involves a group of multiracial rhythm-and-blues performers, and how they're affected by the death of veteran blues musician (Gene Barge). As a bonus, the films takes excellent Read More

1978
Remember My Name

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: This disquieting domestic thriller from writer and director Alan Rudolph was produced by his long-time mentor Robert Altman. Anthony Perkins stars as Neil Curry, a construction worker living happily in suburbia with his wife Barbara (Berry Berenson) until their home becomes vandalized during the Read More

1978
Star Wars

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing

Synopsis: George Lucas' mythological popcorn movie is a two-hour roller-coaster ride that has passed into movie legend. The story, for the tiny number of people not familiar with it, concerns a farm boy named Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) who discovers that the used robot recently purchased by his family Read More

1977
Bad Georgia Road

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mary Woronov

Synopsis: Bad Georgia Road, an unpleasant little thriller directed by John Broderick, is the story of a young woman (Carol Lynley) who inherits an illegal liquor distillery from a relative. She turns it into a money-making business only to come up against the mob, who is her chief competition. The direction Read More

1977
Dr. Black and Mr. White

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bernie Casey, Rosalind Cash, Marie O'Henry, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Milt [Lewis] Kogan

Synopsis: Director William Crain's entertaining follow-up to Blacula stars Bernie Casey (formerly of the L.A. Rams) as Dr. Henry Pride, a prominent black physician who partakes of an experimental formula for the treatment of liver disease -- which turns out to be a close chemical cousin to Dr. Jeykll's Read More

1976
Cannonball

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerritt Graham, Robert Carradine

Synopsis: Paul Bartel rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, containing more twisted metal than a bombed-out steel mill. The nominal storyline concerns an illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York that promises the winner 100,000 dollars. David Carradine is Coy "Cannonball" Read More

1976
Chatterbox

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Candice Rialson, Larry Gelman, Jane Kean, Perry Bullington, Arlene Martell

Synopsis: A young performer has difficulty with her...uh...genitalia when it begins talking to her. This Candice Rialson porno feature should not be confused with the '36 and '42 feature films with the same title. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Death Race 2000

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins

Synopsis: Cult hero Paul Bartel directed this low-budget satire in which America's passion for cars, violence, and sporting events are finally brought together in one convenient package. In the not-so-distant future, the United States has become a totalitarian regime overseen by the charming but sinister Read More

1975
Caged Heat

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Barbara Steele

Synopsis: Considered the quintessential "girls in prison" flick of the 1970s, novice director Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat is set in a hellish American woman's penitentiary run by vicious, wheelchair-bound Barbara Steele. Statuesque convict Erica Gavin is forced to undergo horrible (but legal) tortures when Read More

1974
Bootleggers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Betty Bluett

Synopsis: In this countrified comedy, a pair of hell-raisin' bootleggers try to get revenge upon the moonshiners who plugged their Grandpappy. They also try to get their latest batch of corn-squeezin's to Memphis before their rivals. Look carefully for a young Jaclyn Smith. When she became a star in the Read More

1974
Badlands

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Alan Vint, Ramon Bieri

Synopsis: "He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms." A young couple goes on a Midwest crime spree in Terrence Malick's hypnotically assured debut feature, based on the 1950s Starkweather-Fugate murders. Fancying himself a rebel like James Dean, twentysomething Kit (Martin Sheen Read More

1973

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