Mikio Naruse
Directing
1905-08-20 · 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.
Filmography
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
2005 · Movie
When Love Awakens
1969 · Movie
Two in the Shadow
1967 · Movie
Moment of Terror
1966 · Movie
The Stranger Within a Woman
1966 · Movie
Yearning
1964 · Movie
A Woman's Life
1963 · Movie
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 · Movie
The Wiser Age
1962 · Movie
The Other Woman
1961 · Movie
The Approach of Autumn
1960 · Movie
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 · Movie
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 · Movie
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960 · Movie
A Whistle in My Heart
1959 · Movie
Summer Clouds
1958 · Movie
Little Peach
1958 · Movie
Untamed Woman
1957 · Movie
Flowing
1956 · Movie
A Wife's Heart
1956 · Movie
Sudden Rain
1956 · Movie
The First Kiss
1955 · Movie
Floating Clouds
1955 · Movie
Late Chrysanthemums
1954 · Movie
Sound of the Mountain
1954 · Movie
Brother and Sister
1953 · Movie
Wife
1953 · Movie
Husband and Wife
1953 · Movie
Lightning
1952 · Movie
Mother
1952 · Movie
Okuni and Gohei
1952 · Movie
Repast
1951 · Movie
Dancing Girl
1951 · Movie
Ginza Cosmetics
1951 · Movie
Battle of Roses
1950 · Movie
White Beast
1950 · Movie
The Angry Street
1950 · Movie
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 · Movie
Delinquent Girl
1949 · Movie
Spring Awakens
1947 · Movie
Four Love Stories
1947 · Movie
Both You and I
1946 · Movie
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 · Movie
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 · Movie
Until Victory Day
1945 · Movie
The Way of Drama
1944 · Movie
This Happy Life
1944 · Movie
The Song Lantern
1943 · Movie
Mother Never Dies
1942 · Movie
Hideko the Bus Conductor
1941 · Movie
Shanghai Moon
1941 · Movie
A Fond Face from the Past
1941 · Movie
Travelling Actors
1940 · Movie
A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940 · Movie
Keshô yuki
1940 · Movie
Sincerity
1939 · Movie
The Whole Family Works
1939 · Movie
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938 · Movie
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937 · Movie
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 · Movie
Avalanche
1937 · Movie
A Woman's Sorrows
1937 · Movie
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 · Movie
The Road I Travel with You
1936 · Movie
Man of the House
1936 · Movie
The Girl in the Rumor
1935 · Movie
Five Men in a Circus
1935 · Movie
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935 · Movie
The Actress and the Poet
1935 · Movie
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 · Movie
Hana Yori Dango: Studio F's Cherry Blossom Viewing
1935 · Movie
Street Without End
1934 · Movie
Sôbô
1933 · Movie
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 · Movie
Every-Night Dreams
1933 · Movie
Apart from You
1933 · Movie
No Blood Relation
1932 · Movie
Chocolate Girl
1932 · Movie
Moth-eaten Spring
1932 · Movie
Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 · Movie
The Strength of a Moustache
1931 · Movie
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 · Movie
Love and Power
1930 · Movie
Hard Times
1930 · Movie
Pure Love
1930 · Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930 · Movie