Minoru Shibuya
Directing
- Born
- January 2, 1907 · Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- December 20, 1980 (age 73)
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
Every-Night Dreams
June 8, 1933
Street Without End
April 26, 1934
Burden of Life
December 10, 1935
Modern People
September 3, 1952
Doctor's Day Off
April 1, 1952
The Radish and the Carrot
January 3, 1965
The New Road: Akemi
November 30, 1936
A Certain Woman
October 29, 1942
Christ in Bronze
October 11, 1955
Futari dake no toride
March 24, 1963
Woman in the Mist
May 14, 1936
Freedom School
May 5, 1951
Behind the camera33
- 1966Look Up, Noble One Director
- 1965The Radish and the Carrot Director, Screenplay
- 1964Monrō no yōna onna Director, Screenplay
- 1963Futari dake no toride Director, Screenplay
- 1962Drunkard's Paradise Director, Original Story
- 1961A Good Man, A Good Day Director
- 1961The Shrikes Director
- 1960Banana Director
- 1959Kiri aru jyoji Director
- 1958The Days of Evil Women