was a Japanese
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
.
Career
Born in Tokyo, Shibuya attended
Keiō University
, abbreviated as or , is a private research university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally established as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo. It was granted university status in 1920, becoming one of the first private ...
but left before graduating.
He joined Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under
Yasujirō Ozu
was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s.
The most pr ...
,
Mikio Naruse
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.
Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily Shoshimin-eiga, shōshimin-eiga ("common people drama") films with f ...
, and
Heinosuke Gosho
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed Japan's first successful sound film, '' The Neighbor's Wife and Mine'', in 1931. His films are mostly associated with the shōshimin-eiga (lit. "common people drama") genre. Among his ...
, before making his debut as a director in 1937. Shibuya "worked with equal facility in comedy and melodrama,
ndmade his mark as an ironic but compassionate chronicler of the difficulties of the early postwar period".
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".
He directed over four dozen films between 1937 and 1966.
Selected filmography
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Mama no endan'' (ママの縁談) (1937)
*''
Haha to ko'' (母と子) (1938)
*''
Passion Fire'' (情炎 Joen) 1947
[Joseph L. Anderson and Donald Richie. ''The Japanese Film: Art and Industry''. New York: Grove Press, 1960, 177.]
* ''
Gendai-jin
is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Ryō Ikebe
* Isuzu Yamada
* So Yamamura
* Toshiko Kobayashi
* Yūko Mochizuki
* Shinsuke Ashida
was a Japanese a ...
'' (現代人) (1952)
* ''
Honjitsu kyūshin'' (本日休診) (1952)
* ''
Christ in Bronze
is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Eiji Okada
* Kazuko Okada
* Osamu Takizawa
* Shinobu Araki
* Akira Ishihama
* Kyōko Kagawa
* Kinzo Shin
* Kōj ...
'' (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
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1907 births
1980 deaths
Japanese film directors
20th-century Japanese screenwriters