Hiroshi Shimizu

Hiroshi Shimizu was born on 28 March 1903 in Shizuoka Prefecture. He joined Shōchiku in the early twenties, moved into directing in 1924 and made more than one hundred and sixty films. In the thirties he worked more and more outside the studios, with non-professional actors and often children. After the war he took in orphans on a farm in Izu and had them act in films that he produced himself. He died in Kyoto on 23 June 1966.

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• CinemaMr. Thank You有りがたうさんHiroshi Shimizu · 1936Cinema