Born in Tokyo, Shibuya attended Keiō University but left before graduating. He joined Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Heinosuke Gosho, before making his debut as a director in 1937. Shibuya "worked with equal facility in comedy and melodrama and made his mark as an ironic but compassionate chronicler of the difficulties of the early postwar period".
1966Look Up, Noble OneMovieDirector
1965The Radish and the CarrotMovieDirector · Screenplay
1964Monrō no yōna onnaMovieDirector · Screenplay
1963Futari dake no torideMovieDirector · Screenplay
1962Drunkard's ParadiseMovieDirector · Original Story
1961A Good Man, A Good DayMovieDirector
1961The ShrikesMovieDirector
1960BananaMovieDirector
1959Kiri aru jyojiMovieDirector1958The Days of Evil WomenMovieDirector1957The Unbalanced WheelMovieDirector
1957A Case of HonorMovieDirector
1955Christ in BronzeMovieDirector
1954The Glorious DaysMovieDirector · Writer1953YassamossaMovieDirector
1952Modern PeopleMovieDirector
1952Doctor's Day OffMovieDirector1951Freedom SchoolMovieDirector
1950Crazy UproarMovieDirector
1950First Love Questions and AnswersMovieDirector
1948The Fourth LadyMovieDirector
1943Air Raid of the Enemy PlaneMovieDirector1942A Certain WomanMovieDirector
1939Southern WindMovieDirector
1938Mother and ChildMovieDirector1937Song of the Flower BasketMovieEditor
1936The New Road: AkemiMovieAssistant Director1936Woman in the MistMovieAssistant Director
1935Burden of LifeMovieEditor · Assistant Director
1934Street Without EndMovieAssistant Director
1933Every-Night DreamsMovieAssistant Director