Person
Minoru Shibuya
Directing · 1907–1980 · Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Born in Tokyo, Shibuya attended Keiō University but left before graduating. He joined Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Heinosuke Gosho, before making his debut as a director in 1937. Shibuya "worked with equal facility in comedy and melodrama and made his mark as an ironic but compassionate chronicler of the difficulties of the early postwar period".
Known for
The Unbalanced Wheel
Director
The Shrikes
Director
A Certain Woman
Director
Drunkard's Paradise
Director
Song of the Flower Basket
Editor
The Days of Evil Women
Director
Crazy Uproar
Director
Modern People
Director
Kiri aru jyoji
Director
Banana
Director
Filmography
- 1966Look Up, Noble OneDirector
- 1965The Radish and the CarrotDirector
- 1964Monrō no yōna onnaDirector
- 1963Futari dake no torideDirector
- 1962Drunkard's ParadiseDirector
- 1961A Good Man, A Good DayDirector
- 1961The ShrikesDirector
- 1960BananaDirector
- 1959Kiri aru jyojiDirector
- 1958The Days of Evil WomenDirector
- 1957The Unbalanced WheelDirector
- 1957A Case of HonorDirector
- 1955Christ in BronzeDirector
- 1954The Glorious DaysDirector
- 1953YassamossaDirector
- 1952Modern PeopleDirector
- 1952Doctor's Day OffDirector
- 1951Freedom SchoolDirector
- 1950Crazy UproarDirector
- 1950First Love Questions and AnswersDirector
- 1948The Fourth LadyDirector
- 1943Middle-Aged ManDirector
- 1943Air Raid of the Enemy PlaneDirector
- 1942A Certain WomanDirector
- 1939Southern WindDirector
- 1938Mother and ChildDirector
- 1937Don't Tell Your Wife About ItDirector
- 1937Song of the Flower BasketEditor
- 1936The New Road: AkemiAssistant Director
- 1936Woman in the MistAssistant Director
- 1935Burden of LifeEditor
- 1934Street Without EndAssistant Director
- 1933Every-Night DreamsAssistant Director
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