Yasujirō Shimazu

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1897-06-03

Deathday 1945-09-18 (48 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As Ясудзиро Симадзу

Yasujirō Shimazu

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

1944
My Nightingale

as Director

1944
1942
Green Earth

as Director

1941
White Heron

as Director

1940
Wedding Day

as Director

1940
1940
1939
1938
So Goes My Love

as Director

1937
1937
1937
1936
Family Meeting

as Director

1936
Men vs. Women

as Director

1935
Okoto and Sasuke

as Director

1934
1934
That Night's Woman

as Director

1934
My Elder Brother

as Director

1934
Osayo koisugata

as Director

1932
1932
First Steps Ashore

as Director

1931
ABC Lifeline

as Director

1930
Reijin

as Director

1927
Umi mo yusha

as Director

1923
Father

as Director

1923
Yama no senroban

as Director

Writer

1944
My Nightingale

as Writer

1942
Green Earth

as Story

1940
Wedding Day

as Screenplay

1940
1940
1939
1937
1935
1934
That Night's Woman

as Screenplay

1934
1932

Crew

1939
Fisherman's Fire

as Supervisor of Production Resources