Yasujirō Shimazu

Yasujirō Shimazu (島津 保次郎 Shimazu Yasujirō, 3 June 1897  18 September 1945) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes)[1] at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan.

Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shōchiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began training under Kaoru Osanai.[2][3] He was recognized as a director from 1923 and began specializing in the films about the middle class (shōshimingeki) that were favored at Shōchiku's Kamata studio.[2] He especially came into his own in the sound era, but eventually moved to the Tōhō studio. There he made some films in cooperation with the Manchuria Film Association.[4] He died of lung cancer just after the war ended.[2] Many famous directors, such as Heinosuke Gosho, Shirō Toyoda, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, and Keisuke Kinoshita, trained under him.[4]

Selected filmography

References

  1. Standish, Isolde (2011). Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 84. ISBN 0826439012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Yasujiro Shimazu". Mubi.com. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  3. "Shimazu Yasujirō". Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  4. 1 2 Yamane, Sadao (1997). "Shimazu Yasujirō". Nihon eiga jinmei jiten: Kantoku hen (in Japanese). Kinema Junpō. pp. 404–406. ISBN 4-87376-208-1.

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