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May 1, 2024 · Such was the case as previewed the 27 films included in the upcoming Hiroshi Shimizu retrospective — the largest ever in North America — presented by the Museum of the Moving Image and the Japan Society in New York City.
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.
Comic, mournful, and romantic in turns, and boasting some of Shimizu’s most evocative and expressive location shooting, Ornamental Hairpin was condemned at the time for its pointedly un-militaristic theme. (“Film stock is so precious these days,” complained critic Akira Shimizu, “yet Hiroshi Shimizu comes up with such la-di-da stuff ...
May 2, 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. Scenes unspool at the pace of strollers and pilgrims, chatting pairs of women, itinerant workers on their way to the next job.
With over 160 films directed over a 35-year-career that spanned the silent era into the golden age of Japanese cinema, Shimizu is distinguished by his unconventional approach to plotting—one loosely sketched and carefree—and a roaming camera that drifts through the open airs of provincial Japan.
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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Born in 1903, Hiroshi Shimizu, like his colleagues and friends Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi, is a titanic figure in the development of the early Japanese film industry.
