Minoru Shibuya
Born(1907-01-02)2 January 1907
Tokyo, Japan
Died20 December 1980(1980-12-20) (aged 73)
OccupationFilm director
Years active1937-1966

Minoru Shibuya (渋谷実, Shibuya Minoru, 2 January 1907 – 20 December 1980) was a Japanese film director.

Career

Born in Tokyo, Shibuya attended Keiō University but left before graduating.[1] 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.[2] 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".[3]

One notable film was The Radish and the Carrot, which was supposed to be Ozu's next film before he died. But as the critic Chris Fujiwara notes, Shibuya's "films are a world apart from Ozu: harsh, sometimes strident, in tone, splashed with dark humor, tending to contort the human body or thrust it into the bottoms of violently modernist compositions".[3]

He directed over four dozen films between 1937 and 1966.

Selected filmography

  • Mama no endan (ママの縁談) (1937)
  • Haha to ko (母と子) (1938)
  • Passion Fire (情炎 Joen) 1947[4]
  • Gendai-jin (現代人) (1952)
  • Honjitsu kyūshin (本日休診) (1952)
  • Christ in Bronze (青銅の基督 Seidō no Kirisuto) (1956)
  • Seigiha (正義派) (1957)
  • Akujo no kisetsu (悪女の季節) (1958)
  • Mozu (もず) (1961)
  • Kōjin kōjitsu (好人好日) (1961)
  • Yopparai tengoku (酔っぱらい天国) (1961)
  • The Radish and the Carrot (大根と人参 Daikon to ninjin) (1965)

References

  1. ↑ "Shibuya Minoru". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "Minoru Shibuya". Moving Image Source. Museum of the Moving Image. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  3. 1 2 Fujiwara, Chris (9 February 2011). "Finished Business". Moving Image Source. Museum of the Moving Image. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  4. ↑ Joseph L. Anderson and Donald Richie. The Japanese Film: Art and Industry. New York: Grove Press, 1960, 177.
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