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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]
Declared a genius by Kenji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu remains one of the forgotten masters of Japanese cinema. Distinguished by his loosely sketched plots and roaming camera, Shimizu’s worlds are suffused with an innate naturalism and a lyrical humanism that observes the journeys of children, outcasts and travelers alike.
Jul 26, 2004 · Though his films have received intermittent exposure in the West since the 1970s, recent appreciation of the work of Hiroshi Shimizu has been hampered by two misfortunes. The first was a coincidence of birth: born, like his friend and fellow director Yasujiro Ozu, in 1903, he slipped into Ozu’s shadow at the time of their joint centenary.
- Alexander Jacoby
Apr 15, 2004 · The aesthetic peer of his contemporaries, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Gosho, and Naruse, Hiroshi Shimizu in his silent films was a courageous witness to the experiences of his generation, creating works which are surely destined to take their place among the cinema's finest achievements.
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 ...
An unsung master of Japanese cinema, Hiroshi Shimizu (1903–1966) was highly regarded by contemporaries Yasujirō Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi for his seemingly effortless formal ingenuity, distinguished by his signature linear traveling shots and his naturalistic, open-air depictions of regional Japan.
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.
