Toyoda Shiro

Japanese: 豊田四郎 - とよだしろう
Toyoda Shiro

Film director. Born in Kyoto City. After graduating from Kyoto Prefectural First Middle School, he joined Shochiku's Kamata Studio in 1924 (Taisho 13). After transferring to Tokyo Seisho, his film "Young People" (1937), which depicts a tender relationship between a teacher and a female student, attracted fresh attention. He established his foothold in films such as "The Nightingale" (1938), which portrayed the realities of rural society at the time in a group of human figures, and "Spring on a Small Island" (1940), which was set in the Seto Inland Sea and dealt with leprosy patients, and after World War II he became known as a master of "literary films" with his film adaptations of famous literary works such as "The Wild Geese" (1953), "Married Couple Zenzai" (1955), "A Cat, Shozo and Two Women" (1956), "Snow Country" (1957), "A Dark Night's Journey" (1959), and "The Tale of the East of the Sea" (1960). His true talent is best displayed in "Married Couple Zenzai," which vividly depicts the joys and sorrows of a "squalid woman and a worthless man" in the lives of ordinary people through detailed environmental descriptions and in a humorous way. Other works include Sweet Sweat (1964) and Man in Ecstasy (1973).

[Tomonori Saeki]

Documents List of Director's Works

Painted Lips (1929)
Woman Swimming in the City (1929)
Fraternal Marriage (1930)
Proud Woman (1930)
Three Women (1935)
Tokyo-Osaka Special Report (1936)
Head Clerk and Junior Clerk (1936)
Spring at Kamata Ofuna Studio (1936)
The Port is Flirtatious (1937)
Oyakei Akahachi (1937)
Young Man (1937)
Crossfire (1937)
The Crying Bug Boy (1938)
Winter Inn (1938)
Nightingale (1938)
Ioko Okumura (1940)
Spring on the Island (1940)
Ohinata Village (1940)
Chronicle of My Love (1941)
Young Man (1943)
Hinoki Stage (1946)
Four Stories of Love - Episode 1 "First Love" (1947)
My Love is Over the Mountains (1948)
Aren't swans sad? (1949)
Four Seasons of a Woman (1950)
With Eriko, Parts 1 and 2 (1951)
The song of the sea lion (1951)
The Wind Blows Again (1952)
Whispers of Spring (1952)
Wild Geese (1953)
A Certain Woman (1954)
Wheat Whistle (1955)
A Married Couple's Good Deeds (1955)
The White Lady (1956)
The Cat, Shozo and Two Women (1956)
Snow Country (1957)
Evening Calm (1957)
The Loser is the Winner (1958)
Comedy: The Station Inn (1958)
Flower Curtain (1959)
How to Breed Men (1959)
Dark Night Passage (1959)
Master of Chinpindo (1960)
The Tale of the Great East Japan Earthquake (1960)
Tokyo Night Talk (1961)
As Long as There's Tomorrow (1962)
Under What Star (1962)
Melancholy Plain (1963)
The Kitchen Taiheiki (1963)
New Married Couple Goodwill (1963)
Comedy The Merry Widow (1964)
Sweet Sweat (1964)
Wave Shadow (1965)
Yotsuya Kaidan (1965)
The Carpenter's Tale (1965)
Chikuma River Finale (1967)
Comedy: A Hundred Years in Front of the Station (1967)
Comedy: Good Luck in Front of the Station (1968)
Hell Screen (1969)
The Ecstatic (1973)
Between a Wife and a Woman (1976)

[Reference item] | Meoto Yoshiya | Snow Country

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

映画監督。京都市に生まれる。京都府立一中卒業後、1924年(大正13)松竹蒲田(かまた)撮影所に入社。東京発声に移籍後、教師と女生徒の淡い関係を描いた『若い人』(1937)がフレッシュな話題をよび注目を浴びる。以降、当時の農村社会の実情を人間群像のなかに浮き彫りにした『鶯(うぐいす)』(1938)、瀬戸内海を舞台にハンセン病患者を扱った『小島の春』(1940)などで地歩を占め、第二次世界大戦後の『雁(がん)』(1953)、『夫婦善哉(めおとぜんざい)』(1955)、『猫と庄造(しょうぞう)と二人のをんな』(1956)、『雪国』(1957)、『暗夜行路』(1959)、『濹東綺譚(ぼくとうきたん)』(1960)などの著名文学作品の映画化で「文芸映画」の名匠として知られた。その本領は庶民生活における「わわしい女とだめ男」の悲喜こもごもの姿を、克明な環境描写でユーモラスに活写した『夫婦善哉』に集約的に発揮されている。ほかに『甘い汗』(1964)、『恍惚(こうこつ)の人』(1973)などがある。

[佐伯知紀]

資料 監督作品一覧

彩られる唇(1929)
都会を泳ぐ女(1929)
友愛結婚(1930)
心驕(おご)れる女(1930)
三人の女性(1935)
東京―大阪特ダネ往来(1936)
大番頭小番頭(1936)
蒲田大船スタジオの春(1936)
港は浮気風(1937)
オヤケアカハチ(1937)
若い人(1937)
十字砲火(1937)
泣蟲(なきむし)小僧(1938)
冬の宿(1938)
鶯(うぐいす)(1938)
奥村五百子(いおこ)(1940)
小島の春(1940)
大日向村(1940)
わが愛の記(1941)
若き姿(1943)
檜(ひのき)舞台(1946)
四つの恋の物語~第一話「初恋」(1947)
わが愛は山の彼方に(1948)
白鳥は悲しからずや(1949)
女の四季(1950)
えりことともに 第一部・第二部(1951)
せきれいの曲(1951)
風ふたゝび(1952)
春の囁(ささや)き(1952)
雁(1953)
或る女(1954)
麦笛(1955)
夫婦善哉(1955)
白夫人の妖恋(1956)
猫と庄造と二人のをんな(1956)
雪国(1957)
夕凪(1957)
負ケラレセン勝マデハ(1958)
喜劇 駅前旅館(1958)
花のれん(1959)
男性飼育法(1959)
暗夜行路(1959)
珍品堂主人(1960)
濹東綺譚(1960)
東京夜話(1961)
明日ある限り(1962)
如何(いか)なる星の下に(1962)
憂愁平野(1963)
台所太平記(1963)
新・夫婦善哉(1963)
喜劇 陽気な未亡人(1964)
甘い汗(1964)
波影(1965)
四谷怪談(1965)
大工太平記(1965)
千曲川絶唱(1967)
喜劇 駅前百年(1967)
喜劇 駅前開運(1968)
地獄変(1969)
恍惚の人(1973)
妻と女の間(1976)

[参照項目] | 夫婦善哉 | 雪国

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