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.

Portrait of Japanese film director and screenwriter, Yasujirō Shimazu

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
  • First Steps Ashore (Jōriku dai ippo 上陸第一歩) (1932)
  • Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (隣の八重ちゃん) (1934)
  • The Lights of Asakusa (浅草の灯) (1937)
  • A Brother and His Younger Sister (兄とその妹) (1939)
  • Totsugu hi made (嫁ぐ日まで) (1940)

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. "Yasujiro Shimazu". Mubi.com. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  3. "Shimazu Yasujirō". Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  4. 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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