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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.
Hiroshi Shimizu (清水宏, Shimizu Hiroshi, 28 March 1903 – 23 June 1966) was a Japanese film director, who directed over 160 films during his career. [1][2] Biography. Early years. Shimizu was born in Shizuoka Prefecture and attended Hokkaidō University, but left before graduating. [3] .
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.
- Alexander Jacoby
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.
May 2, 2024 · Shimizu’s films often end with new beginnings, and he created sequels to both Children in the Wind and Children of the Beehive, showing—in the words of one subtitle—“what happened next.” Kids grow, seasons change, people move on, and the road unfurls like an endless strip of film: step by step, image by image.
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Apr 26, 2020 · Shimizu’s film is a kind of anti-Taxi Driver (1976), of course Martin Scorsese’s relentless, furious film of a lonely taxi driver, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), whose isolation and loathing of society cannot help but lead him down a violent, destructive path, in an infernal New York.
