Mikio Naruse
DirectingMikio 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.
Known For
Filmography — Acting
Filmography — Crew
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
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Summer Clouds
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
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Floating Clouds
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A Wife's Heart
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Two in the Shadow
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Repast
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Flowing
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A Wanderer's Notebook
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Sound of the Mountain
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Mother
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The Other Woman
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Both You and I
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Little Peach
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The Angry Street
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A Woman's Life
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Untamed Woman
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Sudden Rain
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Four Love Stories
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Brother and Sister
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Ginza Cosmetics
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Moment of Terror
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Yearning
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Husband and Wife
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The Wiser Age
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The Lovelorn Geisha
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Avalanche
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The Stranger Within a Woman
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Okuni and Gohei
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A Whistle in My Heart
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Dancing Girl
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Spring Awakens
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White Beast
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Late Chrysanthemums
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The Approach of Autumn
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Delinquent Girl
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
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The Girl in the Rumor
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
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Lightning
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
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Street Without End
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The Way of Drama
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Apart from You
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Travelling Actors
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
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The First Kiss
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Until Victory Day
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Every-Night Dreams
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The Whole Family Works
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
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The Song Lantern
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Battle of Roses
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Mother Never Dies
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Hideko the Bus Conductor
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No Blood Relation
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Wife
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Hard Times
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
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Love and Power
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Sincerity
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A Fond Face from the Past
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Moth-eaten Spring
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Shanghai Moon
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Crying to the Blue Sky
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The Actress and the Poet
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A Woman's Sorrows
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Chocolate Girl
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A Gentle Breeze With Father
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Sôbô
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Man of the House
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The Road I Travel with You
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Flunky, Work Hard!
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
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Learn from Experience, Part One
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Five Men in a Circus
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Pure Love
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The Strength of a Moustache
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This Happy Life
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Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
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