Directing

Minoru Shibuya

Born January 2, 1907 · Tokyo, Japan

Died December 20, 1980 · aged 73

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

Doctor's Day Off

Doctor's Day Off · 1952

Doctor's Day Off

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...

Street Without End

Street Without End · 1934

Street Without End

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.

The Glorious Days

The Glorious Days · 1954

The Glorious Days

The Glorious Days

The Days of Evil Women

The Days of Evil Women · 1958

The Days of Evil Women

MovieDramaComedy

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Monrō no yōna onna

Monrō no yōna onna · 1964

Monrō no yōna onna

1964 Japanese movie

Crazy Uproar

Crazy Uproar · 1950

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Modern People

Modern People · 1952

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.

Burden of Life

Burden of Life · 1935

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

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Doctor's Day Off

Doctor's Day Off · 1952

Doctor's Day Off

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...

Director

Street Without End

Street Without End · 1934

Street Without End

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.

Assistant Director

The Glorious Days

The Glorious Days · 1954

The Glorious Days

The Glorious Days

Writer

The Days of Evil Women

The Days of Evil Women · 1958

The Days of Evil Women

MovieDramaComedy

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Director

Monrō no yōna onna

Monrō no yōna onna · 1964

Monrō no yōna onna

1964 Japanese movie

Director

Crazy Uproar

Crazy Uproar · 1950

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Director

Modern People

Modern People · 1952

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.

Director

Burden of Life

Burden of Life · 1935

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Assistant Director

Look Up, Noble One

Look Up, Noble One · 1966

Look Up, Noble One

MovieDramaComedy

Director

The New Road: Akemi

The New Road: Akemi · 1936

The New Road: Akemi

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.

Assistant Director

A Good Man, A Good Day

A Good Man, A Good Day · 1961

A Good Man, A Good Day

MovieComedyDrama

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.

Director

Woman in the Mist

Woman in the Mist · 1936

Woman in the Mist

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems his uncle's advice may already be too late.

Assistant Director

Freedom School

Freedom School · 1951

MovieDramaComedy

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion.

Director

The Radish and the Carrot

The Radish and the Carrot · 1965

The Radish and the Carrot

MovieComedyDrama

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…

Director

Drunkard's Paradise

Drunkard's Paradise · 1962

Drunkard's Paradise

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.

Director

A Case of Honor

A Case of Honor · 1957

A Case of Honor

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

Director

The Shrikes

The Shrikes · 1961

Director

The Fourth Lady

The Fourth Lady · 1948

The Fourth Lady

It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to burnt earth. A Tokyo with no one to rely on.

Director

Christ in Bronze

Christ in Bronze · 1955

Christ in Bronze

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

Director

A Certain Woman

A Certain Woman · 1942

A Certain Woman

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her life has taken.

Director

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane · 1943

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Japanese war movie.

Director

Every-Night Dreams

Every-Night Dreams · 1933

Every-Night Dreams

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.

Assistant Director

Mother and Child

Mother and Child · 1938

Mother and Child

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.

Director

The Unbalanced Wheel

The Unbalanced Wheel · 1957

The Unbalanced Wheel

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Director