Mikio Naruse
Known for: Directing
Born: August 20, 1905
Died: July 2, 1969
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Mikio Naruse (August 20, 1905 – July 2, 1969) was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 (towards the end of the silent period in Japan) to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki (working-class drama) films with female protagonists, portrayed by actresses such as Hideko Takamine, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Setsuko Hara. Because of his focus on family drama and the intersection of traditional and modern Japanese culture, his films are frequently compared with the works of Yasujirō Ozu. His reputation is just behind Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Ozu in Japan and internationally; his work remains less well known outside Japan than theirs. Akira Kurosawa called Naruse's style of melodrama, "like a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths". Description above from the Wikipedia article Mikio Naruse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
86 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
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When Love Awakens
1969
7.8
Two in the Shadow
1967
5.9
Moment of Terror
1966
7.4
The Stranger Within a Woman
1966
8.1
Yearning
1964
7.1
A Woman's Life
1963
7.2
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
7.2
The Wiser Age
1962
6.3
The Other Woman
1961
7.0
The Approach of Autumn
1960
6.9
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960
7.3
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
8.0
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
6.7
A Whistle in My Heart
1959
7.7
Summer Clouds
1958
6.1
Little Peach
1958
7.5
Untamed Woman
1957
7.2
Flowing
1956
6.9
A Wife's Heart
1956
6.7
Sudden Rain
1956
6.4
The First Kiss
1955
7.7
Floating Clouds
1955
7.2
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
7.4
Sound of the Mountain
1954
6.3
Brother and Sister
1953
7.2
Wife
1953
6.9
Husband and Wife
1953
7.3
Lightning
1952
7.0
Mother
1952
6.3
Okuni and Gohei
1952
7.6
Repast
1951
6.4
Dancing Girl
1951
6.5
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
6.2
Battle of Roses
1950
5.6
White Beast
1950
6.7
The Angry Street
1950
6.9
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
7.0
Delinquent Girl
1949
6.8
Spring Awakens
1947
6.2
Four Love Stories
1947
8.0
Both You and I
1946
7.5
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
5.9
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945
8.0
Until Victory Day
1945
7.0
The Way of Drama
1944
6.3
This Happy Life
1944
7.3
The Song Lantern
1943
6.2
Mother Never Dies
1942
7.3
Hideko the Bus Conductor
1941
8.0
Shanghai Moon
1941
6.0
A Fond Face from the Past
1941
6.4
Travelling Actors
1940
9.0
A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940
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Keshô yuki
1940
6.0
Sincerity
1939
6.7
The Whole Family Works
1939
6.6
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938
6.3
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
6.7
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
6.8
Avalanche
1937
6.7
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
6.7
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936
6.7
The Road I Travel with You
1936
6.3
Man of the House
1936
6.2
The Girl in the Rumor
1935
6.0
Five Men in a Circus
1935
7.2
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935
6.6
The Actress and the Poet
1935
6.6
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935NR
Hana Yori Dango: Studio F's Cherry Blossom Viewing
1935
6.6
Street Without End
19348.0
Sôbô
193310.0
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933
7.2
Every-Night Dreams
1933
7.0
Apart from You
1933
7.3
No Blood Relation
19328.0
Chocolate Girl
1932
10.0
Moth-eaten Spring
19329.0
Crying to the Blue Sky
19327.0
The Strength of a Moustache
1931
6.8
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931
9.0
Love and Power
1930
8.0
Hard Times
1930
7.0
Pure Love
1930
8.0
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930