Where to watch Yasujirō Shimazu in the UK
Find every Yasujirō Shimazu film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 6 May 2026.
Yasujirō Shimazu (島津 保次郎, Shimazu Yasujirō, 3 June 1897 – 18 September 1945) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, and a pioneer of the shōshimin-eiga (common people drama) genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Shimazu was born in Tokyo, the second son of merchant Otojirō Shimazu. His father owned a long-established seaweed business named Kōshū-ya directly in front of the main Mitsukoshi department store in Nihonbashi. Shimazu entered Shōchiku in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began training under Kaoru Osanai. He gave his debut as director in 1921 at S…
Yasujirō Shimazu films streaming in the UK
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- Okoto and Sasuke (1935) Director
- Green Earth (1942) Director
- Men vs. Women (1936) Director
- The Lights of Asakusa (1937) Director
- The Trio's Engagements (1937) Director
- Nichijô no tatakai (1944) Director
- A Brother and His Younger Sister (1939) Director
- Wedding Day (1940) Screenplay
- Osayo Koi Sugata (1934) Director
- White Heron (1941) Director
- Hikari to kage (Zenpen) (1940) Director
- Reijin (1930) Director
- So Goes My Love (1938) Director
- Okayo's Preparedness (1939) Director
- Hikari to kage (Kōhen) (1940) Screenplay
- First Steps Ashore (1932) Director
- Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934) Director
- That Night's Woman (1934) Director
- Vermilion and Green (1937) Director
- Family Meeting (1936) Director
- My Elder Brother (1934) Writer
- ABC Lifeline (1931) Director
- Umi mo yusha (1927) Director
- A World of Two (1940) Director
- Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1 (1931) Director
- My Nightingale (1944) Director
- A Brother and His Sister (1956) Screenplay
- The Glory of the Shōwa Era (1928) Director
- Nature Is the Judge (1925) Director
- Young Master (1926) Director
- Father (1923) Director
- Fisherman's Fire (1939) Supervisor of Production Resources
- Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2 (1931) Director
- Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl (1956) Screenplay
- Yama no senroban (1923) Director
- ABC Lifeline: Fujieda Chapter (1931) Director
- Echigo Lion (1929) Director
- If Only She... (1928) Director
- Arashi no naka no shojo (1932) Director
- Scenes of Love (1929) Director
- The Great Ship (1930) Director
- Brave Love (1925) Director
- Victory or Defeat (1932) Director
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