Minoru Shibuya
Born: 1907-01-02 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1980-12-20
Known For: Directing
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".
Filmography
1966
- Look Up, Noble One ... (Director)
1965
- The Radish and the Carrot ... (Director)
1964
- Monrō no yōna onna ... (Director)
1963
- Futari dake no toride ... (Director)
1962
- Drunkard's Paradise ... (Director)
1961
- The Shrikes ... (Director)
- A Good Man, A Good Day ... (Director)
1960
- Banana ... (Director)
1959
- Kiri aru jyoji ... (Director)
1958
- The Days of Evil Women ... (Director)
1957
- The Unbalanced Wheel ... (Director)
- A Case of Honor ... (Director)
1955
- Christ in Bronze ... (Director)
1954
- The Glorious Days ... (Director)
1953
- Yassamossa ... (Director)
1952
- Modern People ... (Director)
- Doctor's Day Off ... (Director)
1951
- Freedom School ... (Director)
1950
- Crazy Uproar ... (Director)
- First Love Questions and Answers ... (Director)
1948
- The Fourth Lady ... (Director)
1943
- Middle-Aged Man ... (Director)
- Air Raid of the Enemy Plane ... (Director)
1942
- A Certain Woman ... (Director)
1939
- Southern Wind ... (Director)
1938
- Mother and Child ... (Director)
1937
- Song of the Flower Basket ... (Editor)
- Don't Tell Your Wife About It ... (Director)
1936
- Woman in the Mist ... (Assistant Director)
- The New Road: Akemi ... (Assistant Director)
1935
- Burden of Life ... (Editor)
1934
- Street Without End ... (Assistant Director)
1933
- Every-Night Dreams ... (Assistant Director)