Background
Shibuya Minoru was born on January 2, 1907 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Shibuya Minoru was born on January 2, 1907 in Tokyo, Japan.
Shibuya attended the Literature Department of Keio University but left without 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".
One notable film was The Radish and the Carrot, which was supposed to be Ozu's next film before he died.
He directed over four dozen films between 1937 and 1966. Directed the picture "The Mother and Child" (1938). He shows a refined sentiment of urban life in his films. After the war, directed Tenya Wanya (A Mess), Jiyv, Gakko (School of Freedom) and Honjitsu Kyushin (Clinic Closed Today) which established his fame.
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Critic Chris Fujiwara notes, Shibuya's "films are a world apart from Yasujirō 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".