Minoru Shibuya
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 2, 1907
- Died
- December 20, 1980
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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".
Filmography
Look Up, Noble One 1966
Director
The Radish and the Carrot 1965
Director, Screenplay
Monrō no yōna onna 1964
Director, Screenplay
Futari dake no toride 1963
Director, Screenplay
Drunkard's Paradise 1962
Director, Original Story
A Good Man, A Good Day 1961
Director
The Shrikes 1961
Director
Banana 1960
Director
Kiri aru jyoji 1959
Director
The Days of Evil Women 1958
Director
The Unbalanced Wheel 1957
Director
A Case of Honor 1957
Director
Christ in Bronze 1955
Director
The Glorious Days 1954
Director, Writer
Yassamossa 1953
Director
Modern People 1952
Director
Doctor's Day Off 1952
Director
Freedom School 1951
Director
Crazy Uproar 1950
Director
First Love Questions and Answers 1950
Director
The Fourth Lady 1948
Director
- Middle-Aged Man
Middle-Aged Man 1943
Director
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane 1943
Director
A Certain Woman 1942
Director
Southern Wind 1939
Director
Mother and Child 1938
Director
- Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Don't Tell Your Wife About It 1937
Director
Song of the Flower Basket 1937
Editor
The New Road: Akemi 1936
Assistant Director
Woman in the Mist 1936
Assistant Director
Burden of Life 1935
Editor, Assistant Director
Street Without End 1934
Assistant Director
Every-Night Dreams 1933
Assistant Director
Credits from TMDB.