Minoru Shibuya
Birthday: 1907-01-02
Deathday: 1980-12-20
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Male
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".
Credits
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1965-01-03 | The Radish and the Carrot |
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1964-01-01 | Monrō no yōna onna |
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1963-03-24 | Futari dake no toride |
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1962-02-04 | Drunkard's Paradise |
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1961-08-13 | A Good Man, A Good Day |
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1961-03-01 | The Shrikes |
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1958-11-30 | The Days of Evil Women |
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1957-11-26 | The Unbalanced Wheel |
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1957-02-20 | A Case of Honor |
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1955-10-11 | Christ in Bronze |
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1954-04-14 | The Glorious Days |
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1953-02-25 | Yassamossa |
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1952-09-03 | Modern People |
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1952-04-01 | Doctor's Day Off |
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1951-05-05 | Freedom School |
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1950-07-23 | Crazy Uproar |
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1950-01-15 | First Love Questions and Answers |
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1948-12-23 | The Fourth Lady |
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1943-08-12 | Middle-Aged Man |
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1943-04-01 | Air Raid of the Enemy Plane |
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1942-10-29 | A Certain Woman |
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1939-02-15 | Southern Wind |
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1938-07-01 | Mother and Child |
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1937-05-20 | Don't Tell Your Wife About It |