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