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...His filmmaking style was based on a "realistic spirit" that "wanted to remove stage-like drama from films as much as possible," and he opened up a unique realm in numerous works depicting children, from "Children in the Wind" and "Children's Four Seasons," based on original works by Joji Tsubota, to "Children of the Beehive" (1948), which he made independently with an amateur staff and cast, except for the cameraman and assistant director, and the trilogy "The Children of the Beehive After" (1951) and "The Great Buddha and His Children" (1952), with the war orphans he had been taking care of as the main characters after Japan's defeat. He also produced many excellent films depicting "travel," such as "Love School Trip" (1934), said to have been inspired by Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" (1934), and "Thank You" (1936), which was set on a bus traveling around Izu and was shot entirely on location, which was unusual for the time. Shimizu Hiroshi's "children's stories" and "travel stories" are said to be "a modern attempt to integrate nature and psychology and create a rich atmosphere," something that Inagaki Hiroshi and Yamanaka Sadao, with whom Shimizu had connections in the 1930s, pursued in their travel stories.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Arigatausan" are listed below.

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…〈映画から極力舞台的な芝居を除きたい〉という〈実写的精神〉に基づく映画作法で，坪田譲治原作の《風の中の子供》《子供の四季》から，敗戦後，みずから世話をしていた戦災孤児たちを主人公に，カメラマン，助監督以外はすべて素人のスタッフとキャストで自主製作した《蜂の巣の子供達》(1948)とそれに続く《その後の蜂の巣の子供達》(1951)，《大仏さまと子供たち》(1952)の三部作に至る，子どもを描いた数々の作品に独自の境地をひらく。また，フランク･キャプラの《或る夜の出来事》(1934)をヒントにしたといわれる《恋愛修学旅行》(1934)や，伊豆をめぐる1台のバスを舞台にした，当時としては異例のオール･ロケ撮影による《有りがたうさん》(1936)など，〈旅〉を描いた映画に秀作が多い。清水宏の〈子供もの〉〈旅もの〉は，清水が交流のあった1930年代の稲垣浩や山中貞雄が股旅もので追求した〈自然と心理を一体化して，豊かな雰囲気を醸し出す表現を現代劇で追求したもの〉といわれている。…

※「《有りがたうさん》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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