Directing
Minoru Shibuya
JA cinema · 33 credits
Born
2 January 1907
Died
20 December 1980 (aged 73)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Also known as Минору Сибуя
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
Filmography
The Radish and the Carrot
Director, Screenplay
Monrō no yōna onna
Director, Screenplay
Futari dake no toride
Director, Screenplay
Drunkard's Paradise
Director, Original Story
The Shrikes
Director
Banana
Director
Kiri aru jyoji
Director
The Unbalanced Wheel
Director
Christ in Bronze
Director
The Glorious Days
Director, Writer
Yassamossa
Director
Modern People
Director
Doctor's Day Off
Director
Freedom School
Director
Crazy Uproar
Director
A Certain Woman
Director
Southern Wind
Director
Woman in the Mist
Assistant Director
The New Road: Akemi
Assistant Director
Burden of Life
Editor, Assistant Director
Street Without End
Assistant Director
Every-Night Dreams
Assistant Director