Mikio Naruse
Directing
Born 1905-08-20
Died 1969-07-02
Tokyo, Japan
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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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Filmography
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Directing
58 credits
Wife
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Floating Clouds
Yearning
Five Men in a Circus
Two in the Shadow
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Flowing
Mother
Apart from You
A Wanderer's Notebook
Sound of the Mountain
Untamed Woman
Learn from Experience, Part One
Ginza Cosmetics
A Woman's Life
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
This Happy Life
Sudden Rain
Lightning
The Wiser Age
Man of the House
Late Chrysanthemums
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
Little Peach
Flunky, Work Hard!
Repast
A Wife's Heart
Moment of Terror
The Actress and the Poet
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Brother and Sister
Hideko the Bus Conductor
Battle of Roses
Street Without End
A Whistle in My Heart
Summer Clouds
The Stranger Within a Woman
Spring Awakens
Dancing Girl
Both You and I
The Road I Travel with You
The Other Woman
The Approach of Autumn
Every-Night Dreams
White Beast
The Girl in the Rumor
Delinquent Girl
The Angry Street
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Okuni and Gohei
Learn from Experience, Part Two
The Lovelorn Geisha
No Blood Relation
The First Kiss
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
The Song Lantern
Writing
20 credits
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Yearning
When Love Awakens
Apart from You
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
This Happy Life
Man of the House
Little Peach
Flunky, Work Hard!
Hideko the Bus Conductor
Spring Awakens
Both You and I
The Road I Travel with You
Every-Night Dreams
White Beast
The Girl in the Rumor
Delinquent Girl
The Angry Street
No Blood Relation
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Producing
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Acting
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