Name Yasujiro Shimazu Children Shoichi Shimazu | Role Film director | |
Movies Our Neighbor Miss Yae, The Trio\'s Engagement Similar People Ken Uehara, Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine, Shuji Sano, Setsuko Hara | ||
島津保次郎 - 家族会議 / Yasujiro Shimazu - Family Meeting (1936)
100 Favourite Films. #92 - Our Neighbor Miss Yae
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) at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan.
Contents
- Yasujiro Shimazu Family Meeting 1936
- 100 Favourite Films 92 Our Neighbor Miss Yae
- Selected filmography
- References
Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shōchiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began training under Kaoru Osanai. 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. 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. He died of lung cancer just after the war ended. Many famous directors, such as Heinosuke Gosho, Shirō Toyoda, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, and Keisuke Kinoshita, trained under him.