Minoru Shibuya

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".

Crew

Mother and Child

Director

The Glorious Days

Director, Writer

Southern Wind

Director

A Certain Woman

Director

Christ in Bronze

Director

Modern People

Director

Don't Tell Your Wife About It

Director

Doctor's Day Off

Director

The Radish and the Carrot

Director, Screenplay

Drunkard's Paradise

Director, Original Story

Futari dake no toride

Director, Screenplay

Every-Night Dreams

Assistant Director

Street Without End

Assistant Director

Burden of Life

Editor, Assistant Director

Woman in the Mist

Assistant Director

Middle-Aged Man

Director

Freedom School

Director

The Fourth Lady

Director

The Unbalanced Wheel

Director

Song of the Flower Basket

Editor

The Days of Evil Women

Director

The Shrikes

Director

The New Road: Akemi

Assistant Director

A Case of Honor

Director

A Good Man, A Good Day

Director

Yassamossa

Director

Crazy Uproar

Director

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Director

First Love Questions and Answers

Director

Monrō no yōna onna

Director, Screenplay