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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.

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