---
name: "Yûharu Atsuta"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yuharu-atsuta"
fi1m_id: "yuharu-atsuta"
imdb_id: "nm0040916"
tmdb_id: 552001
wikidata_id: "Q3574300"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "1 January 1905"
died: "7 December 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 90
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T14:25:07.420976+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Yûharu Atsuta

## Identity

Yûharu Atsuta

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yuharu-atsuta
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yuharu-atsuta
- **IMDb ID:** nm0040916
- **TMDB ID:** 552001
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3574300
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3574300, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040916/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552001

Cinematographer. Born 1 January 1905 in Kobe, Japan. Died 7 December 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 1 January 1905, Kobe, Japan
- **Died:** 7 December 1992
- **Active:** 1949–1962
- **Also known as:** Yuuji Atsuta
- **Frequently works with:** [Chishū Ryū](https://film.one/person/chishu-ryu.md), [Kōgo Noda](https://film.one/person/kogo-noda.md), [Yasujirō Ozu](https://film.one/person/yasujiro-ozu.md), [Haruko Sugimura](https://film.one/person/haruko-sugimura.md), [Setsuko Hara](https://film.one/person/setsuko-hara.md), [Takeshi Yamamoto](https://film.one/person/takeshi-yamamoto.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 92 (1), 1950s 92 (1), 1960s 86 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 90 to 88 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3574300, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040916/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552001

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Tokyo Story*](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story.md) (92), [*Late Spring*](https://film.one/film/late-spring.md) (92), [*An Autumn Afternoon*](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md) (86)

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## Biography

Yûharu Atsuta (also credited as Yuuji Atsuta) was a Japanese cinematographer. He was born on 1 January 1905 in Kobe and died on 7 December 1992.

Atsuta joined Shochiku studios and worked as an assistant cinematographer on Yasujirō Ozu films from 1928. He became a director of photography in 1937 on *What Did the Lady Forget?* and served as Ozu's principal cinematographer on all subsequent Shochiku productions until 1962.

He shot *Late Spring* (1949), *Early Summer* (1951), *Tokyo Story* (1953), *Good Morning* (1959), *Late Autumn* (1960) and *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), among many others. Atsuta appeared in the 1985 documentary *Tokyo-ga*, discussing Ozu's techniques.

*Sources: imdb.com, metacritic.com, umdb.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp, jtnews.jp.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), Fi1m 86, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)
- *Tokyo Story* (1953), Fi1m 92, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story.md)
- *Late Spring* (1949), Fi1m 92, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/late-spring.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *I Lived, But...* (1983), Director of Photography
- *Lover's Duet* (1967), Director of Photography
- *The River Yokobori* (1966), Director of Photography
- *Wakai nobara* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Nagisa o kakeru onna* (1964), Director of Photography
- *Double Wedding* (1963), Director of Photography
- *An Autumn Afternoon* (1962), Director of Photography — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/an-autumn-afternoon.md)
- *A Roaring Trade* (1962), Director of Photography
- *The Estuary* (1961), Director of Photography
- *Late Autumn* (1960), Director of Photography
- *Shu no kafun* (1960), Director of Photography
- *Vagabond Lovers* (1959), Director of Photography
- *Good Morning* (1959), Director of Photography
- *People Waiting for Spring* (1959), Director of Photography
- *Equinox Flower* (1958), Director of Photography
- *Black River* (1957), Director of Photography
- *Tokyo Twilight* (1957), Director of Photography
- *I Will Buy You* (1956), Director of Photography
- *Early Spring* (1956), Director of Photography
- *Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the Green Grass* (1954), Director of Photography
- *Tokyo Story* (1953), Director of Photography — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-story.md)
- *Hibari Jolly Angel* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Sisters* (1953), Director of Photography
- *The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice* (1952), Director of Photography
- *Over That Hill* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Early Summer* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Home Sweet Home* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Omoide no borero* (1950), Director of Photography
- *Late Spring* (1949), Director of Photography — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/late-spring.md)
- *A Hen in the Wind* (1948), Director of Photography
- *Newlywed League Match* (1947), Director of Photography
- *Record of a Tenement Gentleman* (1947), Director of Photography
- *Yurusareta ichiya* (1946), Director of Photography
- *The Woman Who Holds the Key* (1946), Director of Photography
- *There Was a Father* (1942), Director of Photography
- *Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family* (1941), Director of Photography
- *Nobuko* (1940), Director of Photography
- *Haha o tataeru uta* (1939), Director of Photography
- *Family Diary* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Mother and Child* (1938), Assistant Camera
- *What Did the Lady Forget?* (1937), Director of Photography
- *The Only Son* (1936), as Lighting Technician
- *Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?* (1932), Assistant Camera
- *The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman* (1931), First Assistant Camera
- *Treasure Mountain* (1929), Assistant Camera
- *Couple on the Move* (1928), Director of Photography
- *Pumpkin* (1928), Camera Operator
- *Wife Lost* (1928), Camera Operator
- *Dreams of Youth* (1928), Director of Photography

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