Shimizu Hiroshi was a Japanese film director active during the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. He was born in Nishiwataru, Yama-ka, Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. Due to his parents' strained relationship, he was raised by his grandfather at his mother's family home upstream of the Tenryu River. His father was said to be an employee of Furukawa Mining, while his mother was the daughter of the Ohashi family, who owned extensive land and engaged in forestry in the mountain village. He is distantly related to Uraoka Keiichi, an editor of Shochiku Nouvelle Vague. During his childhood in the village, he was mischievous and had poor grades. Because of this, he was taken in by his father, who lived in Hamamatsucho, Shibaku, Tokyo, Japan. In 1910, he transferred to the second grade at Shinmei Elementary School in Sakuragawa-cho, Shibaku. At his father's insistence, he enrolled in a junior high school in Hamamatsu. However, he admitted to engaging in petty theft and entertainment with his delinquent friends, neglecting both his studies and extracurricular activities. After graduating in 1920, Shimizu claimed to have enrolled at the Faculty of Agriculture at Hokkaido University. According to his own account, he dropped out after one year due to finding his studies boring. However, many film industry insiders at the time doubted his academic credentials. After returning to Tokyo in 1921, he lived as a projectionist in Asakusa. Through an introduction by Suzuki Teruo, a cinematographer at Kokkatsu Sumazu Studio, he became an assistant to Harada Mitsuo. In 1922, Harada's "Gakugei Katsudo Shashinsha" disbanded, and Shimizu became a live-in assistant to Harada. Around November 1922, through his father's acquaintance with Arishima Takeo during his time in the United States, Shigeru Shimizu was introduced to Osanai Kaoru and entered the Shochiku Kamata Studios with the recommendation of Kurishima Sumiko. He was assigned as Watch drama online for free.