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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.
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 · Hiroshi Shimizu: A Hero of His Time. Alexander Jacoby. July 2004. Feature Articles. Issue 32. 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.
- Alexander Jacoby
Hiroshi Shimizu was born on 28 March 1903 in Shizuoka, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Ornamental Hairpin (1941), Children in the Wind (1937) and Sono ato no hachi no su no kodomotachi (1951). He was married to Kinuyo Tanaka. He died on 23 June 1966 in Kyoto, Japan.
- Director, Writer, Producer
- March 28, 1903
- Hiroshi Shimizu
- June 23, 1966
Apr 12, 2022 · Making his directorial debut in 1924 at the age of 21, Hiroshi Shimizu (1903–66) went on to make over 160 films in a career contemporaneous with widely acknowledged masters Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi, in whose critical shadows he often, undeservedly, resided.
Hiroshi Shimizu: Notes of an Itinerant Director. July 19–August 28, 2024. Born in 1903 (the same year as Yasujiro Ozu), Hiroshi Shimizu made some 150 films between 1924 and 1959. While the majority of those have been lost, a significant number of excellent films have survived.
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.
