Hiroshi Shimizu (director)

Shimizu Hiroshi (Japanese清水 宏, born March 28, 1903 in Nishiwatari, Yamaka, Iwata -gun (now Tenryu- ku, Hamamatsu ), Shizuoka Prefecture, † June 23, 1966 ) was a Japanese film director. He has made about 160 films, of which only 30 have survived. He was born in 1903. Unlike its Japanese contemporaries Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi he remained almost unknown in Germany.