Minoru Shibuya
Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1907 in Tokyo, Japan - Died: December 19, 1980
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
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Mother and Child
Director
The Glorious Days
Director
Southern Wind
Director
A Certain Woman
Director
Christ in Bronze
Director
Modern People
Director
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Director
The Radish and the Carrot
Director
Doctor's Day Off
Director
Drunkard's Paradise
Director
Futari dake no toride
Director
Every-Night Dreams
Assistant Director
Street Without End
Assistant Director
Burden of Life
Assistant Director
Woman in the Mist
Assistant Director
Middle-Aged Man
Director
Freedom School
Director
The Fourth Lady
Director
The Unbalanced Wheel
Director
Song of the Flower Basket
Editor
The Days of Evil Women
Director
The Shrikes
Director
The New Road: Akemi
Assistant Director
A Case of Honor
Director