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