Mikio Naruse
Biography
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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Movies (50)
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
2005
Two in the Shadow
Director (Directing)
1967
Moment of Terror
Director (Directing)
1966
The Stranger Within a Woman
Director (Directing)
1966
Yearning
Director (Directing)
1964
A Woman's Life
Director (Directing)
1963
A Wanderer's Notebook
Director (Directing)
1962
The Wiser Age
Director (Directing)
1962
The Other Woman
Director (Directing)
1961
The Approach of Autumn
Director (Directing)
1960
The Lovelorn Geisha
Director (Directing)
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Director (Directing)
1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Director (Directing)
1960
A Whistle in My Heart
Director (Directing)
1959
Summer Clouds
Director (Directing)
1958
Little Peach
Director (Directing)
1958
Untamed Woman
Director (Directing)
1957
Flowing
Director (Directing)
1956
A Wife's Heart
Director (Directing)
1956
Sudden Rain
Director (Directing)
1956
The First Kiss
Director (Directing)
1955
Floating Clouds
Director (Directing)
1955
Late Chrysanthemums
Director (Directing)
1954
Sound of the Mountain
Director (Directing)
1954
Brother and Sister
Director (Directing)
1953
Wife
Director (Directing)
1953
Husband and Wife
Director (Directing)
1953
Lightning
Director (Directing)
1952
Mother
Director (Directing)
1952
Okuni and Gohei
Director (Directing)
1952
Repast
Director (Directing)
1951
Dancing Girl
Director (Directing)
1951
Ginza Cosmetics
Director (Directing)
1951
Battle of Roses
Director (Directing)
1950
White Beast
Director (Directing)
1950
The Angry Street
Director (Directing)
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Director (Directing)
1950
Delinquent Girl
Screenplay (Writing)
1949
Spring Awakens
Director (Directing)
1947
Four Love Stories
Director (Directing)
1947
Both You and I
Director (Directing)
1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Director (Directing)
1946
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Director (Directing)
1945
Until Victory Day
Director (Directing)
1945
The Way of Drama
Director (Directing)
1944
This Happy Life
Director (Directing)
1944
The Song Lantern
Director (Directing)
1943
Mother Never Dies
Director (Directing)
1942
Hideko the Bus Conductress
Director (Directing)
1941
Shanghai Moon
Director (Directing)
1941