Minoru Shibuya

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

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.

• Mama no endan (ママの縁談) (1937)
• Haha to ko (母と子) (1938)
• Passion Fire (情炎 Joen) 1947^[4]
• 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)

• Minoru Shibuya at IMDb
• Shibuya Minoru at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)