Minoru Shibuya (渋谷実, Shibuya Minoru, 2 January 1907 â€" 20
December 1980) was a Japanese film director.Born in Tokyo, Shibuya
attended KeiÅ University but left before graduating. He joined
Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under YasujirÅ 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. 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".
December 1980) was a Japanese film director.Born in Tokyo, Shibuya
attended KeiÅ University but left before graduating. He joined
Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under YasujirÅ 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. 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".
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