Tak Fujimoto

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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 circuit through the auspices of Roger Corman alumnus Jonathan Demme. His first full director-of-photography credit was for director Terence Malick's "Badlands" (1973); later on, he was one of a battalion of camera operators on George Lucas's "Star Wars" (1977). Since that time, Tak Fujimoto has ascended to the top of his profession, with such award-winners to his credit as "Melvin and Howard" (1980), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) and "Philadelphia" (1993), not to mention such pure-and-simple entertainments as "Swing Shift" (1984), "Pretty in Pink" (1986) and "Married to the Mob" (1988). He has also worked... Full Biography
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