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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.
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The Cinematheque has plucked four gems from this year’s historic touring exhibition, each produced during Shimizu’s brilliant (and neglected) postwar career after he left Shochiku and formed his own independent studio, Hachinosu Eiga.
Jul 26, 2004 · Certainly the masterpiece of Shimizu’s post-war career, it is also one of the outstanding neo-realist films. The opening scene sketches in the dog-eat-dog economics of this desperately poor society: the orphans beg for bread, but they are expected to turn this over to an old man who sells it for a profit on the black market, leaving only the ...
- Alexander Jacoby
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. Starting in the silent era and working through the transition to sound, the industry’s turn to wartime propaganda, and the post-war devastation and occupation, Shimizu’s ...
Often shot on location and casted by non-actors, each of these films possess the full essence of humanity with elegance and compassion. Shimizu’s unique style and technique of filmmaking involve constant tracking shots, as he allows the camera to glide alongside characters doing everyday actions.
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.
A group of orphans and a returning veteran search for jobs across a scarred postwar Japan in Hiroshi Shimizu’s remarkable work of Japanese neorealism, filmed entirely on location—including in a Hiroshima still marked by the atomic bomb.
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