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was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the ''shōshimingeki'' genre (films depicting the lower middle classes)〔Standish, Isolde (2011). ''Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s''. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 84. ISBN 0826439012.〕 at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shōchiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began training under Kaoru Osanai.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yasujiro Shimazu )〕 He was recognized as a director from 1923 and began specializing in the films about the middle class (shōshimingeki) that were favored at Shōchiku's Kamata studio.〔 He especially came into his own in the sound era, but eventually moved to the Tōhō studio. There he made some films in cooperation with the Manchuria Film Association. He died of lung cancer just after the war ended.〔 Many famous directors, such as Heinosuke Gosho, Shirō Toyoda, Kōzaburō Yoshimura, and Keisuke Kinoshita, trained under him.〔 ==Selected filmography== * ''First Steps Ashore'' (Jōriku dai ippo 上陸第一歩) (1932) * ''Tonari no Yae-chan'' (隣の八重ちゃん) (1934) * ''Asakusa no hi'' (浅草の灯) (1937) * ''Ani to sono imōto'' (兄とその妹) (1939) * ''Totsugu hi made'' (嫁ぐ日まで) (1940) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yasujirō Shimazu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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