Minoru Shibuya

Biography

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".

Directed

1. Modern People (1952) — Director
2. Doctor's Day Off (1952) — Director
3. The Radish and the Carrot (1965) — Director
4. A Certain Woman (1942) — Director
5. Christ in Bronze (1955) — Director
6. Don't Tell Your Wife About It (1937) — Director
7. Futari dake no toride (1963) — Director
8. Middle-Aged Man (1943) — Director
9. Freedom School (1951) — Director
10. The Unbalanced Wheel (1957) — Director
11. The Days of Evil Women (1958) — Director
12. Yassamossa (1953) — Director
13. Crazy Uproar (1950) — Director
14. First Love Questions and Answers (1950) — Director
15. Mother and Child (1938) — Director
16. The Glorious Days (1954) — Director
17. Southern Wind (1939) — Director
18. Drunkard's Paradise (1962) — Director
19. The Fourth Lady (1948) — Director
20. The Shrikes (1961) — Director
21. A Case of Honor (1957) — Director
22. A Good Man, A Good Day (1961) — Director
23. Air Raid of the Enemy Plane (1943) — Director
24. Monrō no yōna onna (1964) — Director
25. Kiri aru jyoji (1959) — Director
26. Banana (1960) — Director
27. Look Up, Noble One (1966) — Director