Minoru Shibuya

Minoru Shibuya
Born 2 January 1907
Tokyo, Japan
Died 20 December 1980 (aged 73)
Occupation Film director
Years active 1937-1966

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

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. 3.0 3.1 Fujiwara, Chris (9 February 2011). "Finished Business". Moving Image Source. Museum of the Moving Image. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

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