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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.
One of the great directors of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema, Hiroshi Shimizu depicts the struggles of people on the margins with a light touch, avoiding melodrama and inflecting even the most serious stories with humor and profound humanity.
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.
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.
New English Subtitles by Japan Society. The final film in the thirty-plus year career of Hiroshi Shimizu, Image of a Mother returns to the familiar subject matter of child and parent, a favorite preoccupation of the master filmmaker.
A curious, compassionate storyteller who was fascinated by characters on the outskirts of society, Shimizu used his trademark graceful traveling shot to peek around the corners of contemporary Japan." - The Criterion Collection.
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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.