# Mika Ninagawa

> Known for brightly coloured photographs of flowers, goldfish and landscapes, and for directing the feature films Sakuran and Helter Skelter.

- Canonical: https://thecastindex.com/creatives/mika-ninagawa
- Discipline: Photographer
- Based: Tokyo, Japan
- Known for: Photographer and film director; winner of the 26th Kimura Ihei Award (2001)
- Editor: Kaiser Khan

Tokyo-born photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa (蜷川実花) came to prominence in the late 1990s, first exhibited outside Japan at the Paris store Colette in 1997, and won the 26th Kimura Ihei Award in 2001. She directed the feature films Sakuran (2007) and Helter Skelter (2012), and her survey exhibition Into Fiction/Reality opened at the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, in 2018.