Minoru Shibuya

青銅の基督

Minoru Shibuya

Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kagawa

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

The Shrikes

Minoru Shibuya

Ineko Arima, Chikage Awashima

本日休診

Minoru Shibuya

Eijirō Yanagi, Rentaro Mikuni

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...

現代人

Minoru Shibuya

Ryō Ikebe, Isuzu Yamada

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.

勲章

Minoru Shibuya

Eitarō Ozawa, Keiji Sada

The Glorious Days

悪女の季節

Minoru Shibuya

Isuzu Yamada, Mariko Okada

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Kojin kojitsu

Minoru Shibuya

Chishū Ryū, Chikage Awashima

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.

酔っぱらい天国

Minoru Shibuya

Masahiko Tsugawa, Chieko Baisho

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.

大根と人参

Minoru Shibuya

Chishū Ryū, Nobuko Otowa

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…

気違い部落

Minoru Shibuya

Chikage Awashima, Yūnosuke Itō

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

母と子

Minoru Shibuya

Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Yoshikawa

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.

てんやわんや

Minoru Shibuya

Chikage Awashima, Kamatari Fujiwara

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

奥様に知らすべからず

Minoru Shibuya

Tatsuo Saitô, Fumiko Okamura

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.

敵機空襲

Misao Yoshimura, Hiromasa Nomura

Reikichi Kawamura, Mieko Takamine

Japanese war movie.

やつさもつさ

Minoru Shibuya

Chikage Awashima, Eitarō Ozawa

«Кутерьма» была задумана как первая в трилогии о японских детях, рождённых от американских оккупантов. Внимание режиссера Минору Сибуя разделено между двумя контрастными типажами. Социально сознательная женщина-директор детского дома имеет виды на якобы богатого канадца, в то время как проститутка из Йокогомы боится, но всёже влюбляется в чернокожего американца Саймона. Фильм основан на серии журнальных статей в авторстве Бунроку Сиси.

正義派

Minoru Shibuya

Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.