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Yasujirō Shimazu
Tokyo, Japan
Yasujirō Shimazu (島津 保次郎, Shimazu Yasujirō, 3 June 1897 – 18 September 1945) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, and a pioneer of the shōshimin-eiga (common people dram…
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Yasujirō Shimazu (島津 保次郎, Shimazu Yasujirō, 3 June 1897 – 18 September 1945) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, and a pioneer of the shōshimin-eiga (common people drama) genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Shimazu was born in Tokyo, the second son of merchant Otojirō Shimazu. His father owned a long-established seaweed business named Kōshū-ya directly in front of the main Mitsukoshi department store in Nihonbashi. Shimazu entered Shōchiku in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began training under Kaoru Osanai. He gave his debut as director in 1921 at Shōchiku's recently established Kamata studio, directing both comedy and melodrama films, often depicting the everyday life of the lower middle classes. Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934) and A Brother and His Younger Sister (1939) are regarded as his most exemplary and best films. By the end of the 1930s, he moved to Tōhō studios, where he made some films in cooperation with the Manchuria Film Association. He died of cancer just after the war ended. Many famous directors, such as Heinosuke Gosho, Shirō Toyoda, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, and Keisuke Kinoshita, started their careers as his assistant.
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1956
A Brother and His Sister
Movie Screenplay
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1956
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
Movie Screenplay
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1944
Nichijô no tatakai
Movie Director
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1944
My Nightingale
Movie Director
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1943
Chorus of Prayer
Movie Director
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1942
Green Earth
Movie Director
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1941
White Heron
Movie Director
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1940
A World of Two
Movie Director
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1940
Wedding Day
Movie Screenplay
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1940
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Movie Director
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1940
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
Movie Screenplay
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1939
A Brother and His Younger Sister
Movie Director
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1939
Okayo's Preparedness
Movie Director
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1939
Fisherman's Fire
Movie Supervisor of Production Resources
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1938
So Goes My Love
Movie Director
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1937
The Lights of Asakusa
Movie Director
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1937
The Trio's Engagements
Movie Director
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1937
Vermilion and Green
Movie Director
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1936
Men vs. Women
Movie Director
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1936
Family Meeting
Movie Director
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1935
Okoto and Sasuke
Movie Director
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1934
My Elder Brother
Movie Writer
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1934
That Night's Woman
Movie Director
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1934
Osayo Koi Sugata
Movie Director
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1934
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Movie Director
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1932
Arashi no naka no shojo
Movie Director
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1932
First Steps Ashore
Movie Director
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1932
Victory or Defeat
Movie Director
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1931
ABC Lifeline
Movie Director
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1931
ABC Lifeline: Fujieda Chapter
Movie Director
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1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
Movie Director
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1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
Movie Director
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1930
The Great Ship
Movie Director
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1930
Reijin
Movie Director
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1929
Scenes of Love
Movie Director
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1929
Echigo Lion
Movie Director
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1928
The Glory of the Shōwa Era
Movie Director
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1928
If Only She...
Movie Director
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1927
Umi mo yusha
Movie Director
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1926
Young Master
Movie Director
