Mikio Naruse
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Born August 20, 1905 · Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Two in the Shadow
1967
Moment of Terror
1966
The Stranger Within a Woman
1966
Yearning
1964
A Woman's Life
1963
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
The Wiser Age
1962
The Other Woman
1961
The Approach of Autumn
1960
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
A Whistle in My Heart
1959
Summer Clouds
1958
Little Peach
1958
Untamed Woman
1957
Flowing
1956
A Wife's Heart
1956
Sudden Rain
1956
The First Kiss
1955
Floating Clouds
1955
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Brother and Sister
1953
Wife
1953
Husband and Wife
1953
Lightning
1952
Mother
1952
Okuni and Gohei
1952
Repast
1951
Dancing Girl
1951
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
Battle of Roses
1950
White Beast
1950
The Angry Street
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
Delinquent Girl
1949
Spring Awakens
1947
Four Love Stories
1947
Both You and I
1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945
Until Victory Day
1945
The Way of Drama
1944
This Happy Life
1944
The Song Lantern
1943
Mother Never Dies
1942
Hideko the Bus Conductor
1941
Shanghai Moon
1941
A Fond Face from the Past
1941
Travelling Actors
1940
Sincerity
1939
The Whole Family Works
1939
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
Avalanche
1937
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936
The Road I Travel with You
1936
Man of the House
1936
The Girl in the Rumor
1935
Five Men in a Circus
1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935
The Actress and the Poet
1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935
Street Without End
1934
Sôbô
1933
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933
Every-Night Dreams
1933
Apart from You
1933
No Blood Relation
1932
Chocolate Girl
1932
Moth-eaten Spring
1932
Crying to the Blue Sky
1932
The Strength of a Moustache
1931
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931
Love and Power
1930
Hard Times
1930
Pure Love
1930
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930
