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".
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Acting (1 movie)
Directing (81 movies)
Moth-eaten Spring
1932
Mother
1952
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Flowing
1956
Okuni and Gohei
1952
Repast
1951
Hard Times
1930
Apart from You
1933
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935
The Girl in the Rumor
1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935
White Beast
1950
The Song Lantern
1943
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Floating Clouds
1955
No Blood Relation
1932
Yearning
1964
Lightning
1952
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945
The Whole Family Works
1939
Sincerity
1939
Two in the Shadow
1967
Every-Night Dreams
1933
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931
Street Without End
1934
Battle of Roses
1950
The Wiser Age
1962
Untamed Woman
1957
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
Travelling Actors
1940
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
Wife
1953
A Woman's Life
1963
Summer Clouds
1958
Brother and Sister
1953
Sudden Rain
1956
The Thin Line
1966
The Approach of Autumn
1960
Five Men in a Circus
1935
The Actress and the Poet
1935
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
Until Victory Day
1945
Man of the House
1936
The Road I Travel with You
1936
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936
A Whistle in My Heart
1959
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
Avalanche
1937
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938
Spring Awakens
1947
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960
Husband and Wife
1953
The Other Woman
1961
Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941
A Wife's Heart
1956
Dancing Girl
1951
This Happy Life
1944
Mother Never Dies
1942
Little Peach
1958
Four Love Stories
1947
Moment of Terror
1966
The Way of Drama
1944
Both You and I
1946
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930
A Fond Face from the Past
1941
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
The Angry Street
1950
The Strength of a Moustache
1931
The First Kiss
1955
Pure Love
1930
Sôbô
1933
Chocolate Girl
1932
Crying to the Blue Sky
1932
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933
Love and Power
1930
Delinquent Girl
1949
Shanghai Moon
1941