Minoru Shibuya
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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".
Known for
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Drunkard's Paradise (1962)
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The Days of Evil Women (1958)
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Look Up, Noble One (1966)
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A Certain Woman (1942)
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Crazy Uproar (1950)
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The Radish and the Carrot (1965)
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The Shrikes (1961)
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Doctor's Day Off (1952)
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A Good Man, A Good Day (1961)
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The Unbalanced Wheel (1957)
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Freedom School (1951)
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Modern People (1952)
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The Fourth Lady (1948)
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Mother and Child (1938)
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Southern Wind (1939)
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Futari dake no toride (1963)
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Monrō no yōna onna (1964)
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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane (1943)
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Christ in Bronze (1955)
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A Case of Honor (1957)
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The Glorious Days (1954)
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Banana (1960)
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It (1937)
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Yassamossa (1953)
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Middle-Aged Man (1943)
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Kiri aru jyoji (1959)
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First Love Questions and Answers (1950)
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