Minoru Shibuya
Directing
January 2, 1907 — December 20, 1980Tokyo, 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".
Behind the camera
The Radish and the Carrot
Director
The Radish and the Carrot
Screenplay
Doctor's Day Off
Director
A Good Man, A Good Day
Director
Christ in Bronze
Director
Freedom School
Director
Modern People
Director
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
Director
Southern Wind
Director
Yassamossa
Director
The Glorious Days
Writer
The Glorious Days
Director