Mikio Naruse
Directing
Born: August 20, 1905 · Tokyo, Japan
Died: July 2, 1969 (aged 63)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Floating Clouds
1955
Yearning
1964
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Repast
1951
Two in the Shadow
1967
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
Flowing
1956
Lightning
1952
Apart from You
1933
Every-Night Dreams
1933
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931
Photos (4)
Movies (1)
Directing (76)
Wife
Director
Five Men in a Circus
Director
Yearning
Director
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Director
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Director
Untamed Woman
Director
Floating Clouds
Director
Two in the Shadow
Director
Summer Clouds
Director
Late Chrysanthemums
Director
Mother
Director
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Director
Apart from You
Director
Sound of the Mountain
Director
The Stranger Within a Woman
Director
Flowing
Director
Lightning
Director
The Wiser Age
Director
White Beast
Director
Street Without End
Director
The Approach of Autumn
Director
Moment of Terror
Director
Ginza Cosmetics
Director
Brother and Sister
Director
A Wife's Heart
Director
The Other Woman
Director
Four Love Stories
Director
Repast
Director
A Wanderer's Notebook
Director
Husband and Wife
Director
The First Kiss
Director
A Woman's Life
Director
Sudden Rain
Director
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
Director
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Director
A Whistle in My Heart
Director
Spring Awakens
Director
Little Peach
Director
Hideko the Bus Conductor
Director
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Director
Mother Never Dies
Director
Okuni and Gohei
Director
Love and Power
Director
Learn from Experience, Part One
Director
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Director
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Director
Avalanche
Director
This Happy Life
Director
The Girl in the Rumor
Director
Every-Night Dreams
Director
Man of the House
Director
No Blood Relation
Director
A Woman's Sorrows
Director
Dancing Girl
Director
Delinquent Girl
Director
Battle of Roses
Director
Flunky, Work Hard!
Director
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Director
The Way of Drama
Director
Travelling Actors
Director
Both You and I
Director
The Lovelorn Geisha
Director
The Angry Street
Director
The Song Lantern
Director
The Whole Family Works
Director
Until Victory Day
Director
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Director
The Road I Travel with You
Director
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Director
Sincerity
Director
The Actress and the Poet
Director
A Fond Face from the Past
Director
Shanghai Moon
Director
Moth-eaten Spring
Director
Pure Love
Director
Hard Times
Director
Writing (32)
Yearning
Story
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Screenplay
Apart from You
Screenplay
White Beast
Writer
Spring Awakens
Writer
Little Peach
Screenplay
Hideko the Bus Conductor
Writer
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Writer
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Screenplay
Avalanche
Screenplay
This Happy Life
Screenplay
The Girl in the Rumor
Screenplay
Every-Night Dreams
Story
Man of the House
Writer
A Woman's Sorrows
Story
No Blood Relation
Writer
A Woman's Sorrows
Screenplay
When Love Awakens
Original Story
Delinquent Girl
Screenplay
Flunky, Work Hard!
Screenplay
Travelling Actors
Screenplay
Both You and I
Writer
The Angry Street
Screenplay
The Whole Family Works
Screenplay
Keshô yuki
Story
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Writer
The Road I Travel with You
Screenplay
A Gentle Breeze With Father
Screenplay
Sincerity
Screenplay
A Fond Face from the Past
Screenplay
A Fond Face from the Past
Writer
Hard Times
Story