Minoru Shibuya

Minoru Shibuya
Born	January 2, 1907(1907-01-02) Tokyo, Japan
Died	December 20, 1980(1980-12-20) (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

• Mama no endan (ママの縁談) (1937)
• Haha to ko (母と子) (1938)
• Gendai-jin (現代人) (1952)
• Honjitsu kyūshin (本日休診) (1952)
• Christ in Bronze (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

1. ^ "Shibuya Minoru". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. http://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B8%8B%E8%B0%B7%E5%AE%9F. Retrieved 23 June 2011. 
2. ^ "Minoru Shibuya". Moving Image Source. Museum of the Moving Image. http://www.movingimagesource.us/events/minoru-shibuya-20110223. Retrieved 23 June 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Fujiwara, Chris (9 February 2011). "Finished Business". Moving Image Source. Museum of the Moving Image. http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/finished-business-20110209. Retrieved 23 June 2011. 

External links

• Minoru Shibuya at the Internet Movie Database
• Shibuya Minoru at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)

Persondata
Name	Shibuya, Minoru
Alternative names
Short description	Film director
Date of birth	1907-2-1
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Date of death	1980-12-20
Place of death