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Drawing from a retrospective organized by the Japan Society and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Hiroshi Shimizu: Notes of an Itinerant Director offers a chance to rediscover the work of one of the great directors of the golden age of Japanese cinema.
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A major 27-film retrospective of master Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Shimizu comes to Museum of the Moving Image and Japan Society in NYC, co-organized with the National Film Archive of Japan and the Japan Foundation, New York.
Shimizu’s postwar filmography encapsulates the everyday tragedies of life, the delicate sentiments of love and loss in the wake of the war, and the pains that befall common people—from the hardships of motherhood to the ostracization of disability.
May 19, 2024 · Presented at the Museum, Part I: The Shochiku Years gathers the best films of Shimizu’s protean and varied career with the studio from his stark, strikingly modernist early melodramas, both silent and sound, through the lyrical tours of provincial life with which he would become chiefly associated.
May 2, 2024 · Museum of the Moving Image presents Hiroshi Shimizu Part I: The Shochiku Years May 4–19, 2024. The traveling shot is at the heart of Hiroshi Shimizu’s cinema. His camera glides alongside people as they walk, or tracks backward as they advance down a road.
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Hiroshi Shimizu’s exquisite silent drama, set in the modernizing port town of Yokohama, tells of the humiliating downfall experienced by Sunako (Michiko Oikawa) after jealousy drives her to commit a terrible crime.
