Mikio Naruse

Director

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.

Born: August 20, 1905 in Tokyo, Japan

Died: July 2, 1969 (Age 63)

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Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
A Wanderer's Notebook Movie	7.4	Directing	Director, Producer	1962
A Wife's Heart Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	1956
A Woman's Life Movie	7.5	Directing	Director	1963
The Wiser Age Movie	7.3	Directing	Director	1962
A Woman's Sorrows Movie	6.4	Directing	Director, Screenplay, Story	1937
Little Peach Movie	7.2	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1958
Apart from You Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	6.9	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1933
The Approach of Autumn Movie	7.3	Directing	Director, Producer	1960
Battle of Roses Movie	6.4	Directing	Director	1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	1950
The Lovelorn Geisha Movie	6.5	Directing	Director, Executive Producer	1960
Every-Night Dreams Movie	6.9	Directing	Director, Story	1933
Floating Clouds Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	7.7	Directing	Director	1955
Flowing Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	7.3	Directing	Director	1956
Ginza Cosmetics Movie	6.8	Directing	Director	1951
Hideko the Bus Conductor Movie	6.8	Directing	Director, Writer	1941
Moment of Terror Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	1966
Husband and Wife Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	1953
Lightning Movie	7.3	Directing	Director	1952
Learn from Experience, Part One Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	1937
Late Chrysanthemums Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	7.3	Directing	Director	1954
Learn from Experience, Part Two Movie	6.6	Directing	Director	1937
Repast Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	7.5	Directing	Director	1951
Morning's Tree-Lined Street Movie	6.7	Directing	Director, Writer	1936
Mother Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	7.4	Directing	Director	1952
Daughters, Wives and a Mother Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	1960
Avalanche Movie	6.6	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1937
No Blood Relation Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	6.7	Directing	Director, Writer	1932
Okuni and Gohei Movie	6.8	Directing	Director	1952
Brother and Sister Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	1953
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts Movie	6.9	Directing	Director, Adaptation, Screenplay	1935
The Other Woman Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	1961
Five Men in a Circus Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	1935
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	1945
Sudden Rain Movie	7	Directing	Director	1956
Sincerity Movie	6.7	Directing	Director, Writer	1939
Spring Awakens Movie	6.9	Directing	Director, Writer	1947
Street Without End Movie Available on 3 streaming services.	6.7	Directing	Director	1934
Summer Clouds Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	1958
The Actress and the Poet Movie	5.9	Directing	Director	1935
Dancing Girl Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	1951
The Girl in the Rumor Movie	6.5	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1935
The Road I Travel with You Movie	5.8	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1936
The Song Lantern Movie	6.7	Directing	Director	1943
The Thin Line Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	1966
The Whole Family Works Movie	6.3	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1939
Travelling Actors Movie	6.7	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1940
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro Movie	6.6	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1938
Two in the Shadow Movie	7.9	Directing	Director	1967
Untamed Woman Movie	7.2	Directing	Director	1957
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	8	Directing	Director	1960
A Whistle in My Heart Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	1959
White Beast Movie	6.4	Directing	Director, Writer	1950
Wife Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	1953
Wife! Be Like a Rose! Movie	7.3	Directing	Director, Writer	1935
Sound of the Mountain Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	7.6	Directing	Director	1954
Yearning Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	7.9	Directing	Director, Producer, Story	1964
The First Kiss Movie	6.9	Directing	Director, Executive Producer	1955
This Happy Life Movie	6.1	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1944
Both You and I Movie	6.6	Directing	Director, Writer	1946
Delinquent Girl Movie	8.2	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1949
Mother Never Dies Movie	6.1	Directing	Director	1942
The Way of Drama Movie	6.3	Directing	Director	1944
A Descendant of Urashima Taro Movie	5.7	Directing	Director	1946
Man of the House Movie	6.1	Directing	Director, Writer	1936
The Angry Street Movie	6.7	Directing	Screenplay, Director	1950
Four Love Stories Movie	7.4	Directing	Director	1947
Shanghai Moon Movie	7.1	Directing	Director	1941
Moth-eaten Spring Movie		Directing	Director	1932
A Gentle Breeze With Father Movie		Writing	Screenplay	1940
Until Victory Day Movie	6.1	Directing	Director	1945
Keshô yuki Movie		Writing	Story	1940
A Face from the Past Short Film	6.7	Directing	Director, Screenplay, Writer	1941
Flunky, Work Hard! Short Film	6.5	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1931
Chanbara fûfu Short Film		Directing	Director	1930
Fukeiki jidai Short Film		Directing	Director, Story	1930
The Strength of a Moustache Short Film		Directing	Director, Writer	1931
Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year

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