Tatsuo Suzuki

Tatsuo Suzuki (鈴木 達夫 , Suzuki Tatsuo , born 1935) is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked with many prominent independent directors.

Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Suzuki entered the film industry at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga), where he worked on documentary films. Turning freelance and expanding into fiction and avant-garde film, he worked as the cinematographer on many films of the Art Theatre Guild and of directors such as Kazuo Kuroki, Toshio Matsumoto, Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Shūji Terayama, Kazuhiko Hasegawa, and Masahiro Shinoda.

In 1995, he won the Japan Academy Prize and the Mainichi Film Award for best cinematography for the film Sharaku.