Mikio Naruse
b. 1905 — d. 1969 (aged 64)
Tokyo, Japan
Director
Writer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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
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Koi ni mezameru koro
1969 Writer
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★ 7.8
Scattered Clouds
1967 Director
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★ 7.4
The Stranger Within a Woman
1966 Director
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★ 7.3
Moment of Terror
1966 Director
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★ 8.0
Yearning
1964 Director
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★ 7.7
A Woman's Life
1963 Director
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★ 7.6
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 Director
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★ 7.4
A Woman's Place
1962 Director
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★ 7.4
Poignant Story
1961 Director
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★ 8.0
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960 Director
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★ 7.3
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 Director
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★ 7.5
The Approach of Autumn
1960 Director
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★ 6.7
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 Director
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★ 7.3
A Whistle in My Heart
1959 Director
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★ 7.4
Summer Clouds
1958 Director
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★ 7.4
Little Peach
1958 Director
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★ 7.4
Untamed Woman
1957 Director
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★ 7.5
Flowing
1956 Director
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★ 7.3
Sudden Rain
1956 Director
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★ 7.4
A Wife's Heart
1956 Director
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★ 7.6
Floating Clouds
1955 Director
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★ 7.1
The First Kiss
1955 Director
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★ 7.7
Sound of the Mountain
1954 Director
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★ 7.4
Late Chrysanthemums
1954 Director
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★ 7.3
Older Brother, Younger Sister
1953 Director
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★ 7.1
Wife
1953 Director
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★ 7.2
Husband and Wife
1953 Director
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★ 7.5
Mother
1952 Director
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★ 7.5
Lightning
1952 Director
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★ 7.1
Okuni and Gohei
1952 Director
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★ 7.6
Repast
1951 Director
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★ 7.0
Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Director
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★ 6.8
Dancing Girl
1951 Director
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★ 6.8
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 Director
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★ 6.7
White Beast
1950 Director
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★ 6.7
The Angry Street
1950 Director
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★ 6.6
Battle of Roses
1950 Director
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★ 8.1
Bad Girl
1949 Director
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Tsuru to kodomotachi
1949 Writer
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★ 7.1
Spring Awakens
1947 Director
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★ 7.3
Four Love Stories
1947 Director
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★ 6.4
Even Parting Is Enjoyable
1947 Director
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★ 5.8
The Descendants of Taro Urashima
1946 Director
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★ 6.4
Both You and I
1946 Director
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★ 6.8
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 Director
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★ 6.0
Until Victory Day
1945 Director
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★ 6.1
This Happy Life
1944 Director
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★ 6.3
The Way of Drama
1944 Director
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★ 7.0
The Song Lantern
1943 Director
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Himetaru kakugo
1943 Writer
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★ 6.3
Mother Never Dies
1942 Director
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★ 7.0
Hideko, the Bus Conductor
1941 Director
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★ 6.6
A Face from the Past
1941 Director
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★ 7.1
Shanghai Moon
1941 Director
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★ 6.9
Travelling Actors
1940 Director
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Keshô yuki
1940 Writer
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Soyokaze chichi to tomo ni
1940 Writer
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★ 6.6
The Whole Family Works
1939 Director
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★ 7.0
Sincerity
1939 Director
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★ 6.9
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938 Director
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★ 6.8
Avalanche
1937 Director
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★ 6.8
A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Director
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★ 6.8
Learn from Experience, Part I
1937 Director
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★ 6.5
Learn from Experience, Part II
1937 Director
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★ 6.1
The Road I Travel with You
1936 Director
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★ 6.9
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 Director
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★ 6.0
Man of the House
1936 Director
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★ 7.5
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935 Director
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★ 7.1
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Director
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★ 6.8
The Girl in the Rumor
1935 Director
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★ 6.2
The Actress and the Poet
1935 Director
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★ 6.4
Five Men in a Circus
1935 Director
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★ 6.9
Street Without End
1934 Director
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★ 7.1
Apart from You
1933 Director
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★ 7.1
Every-Night Dreams
1933 Director
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Happy New Year
1933 Director
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Sôbô
1933 Director
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 Director
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★ 6.8
No Blood Relation
1932 Director
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The Scenery of Tokyo with Cake
1932 Director
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Ladies, Be Careful of Your Sleeves
1932 Director
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Moth-eaten Spring
1932 Director
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Be Great!
1932 Director
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Chocolate Girl
1932 Director
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Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 Director
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★ 6.7
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 Director
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Fickleness Gets on the Train
1931 Director
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Under the Neighbours' Roof
1931 Director
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Screams from the Second Floor
1931 Director
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Now Don't Get Excited
1931 Director
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The Strength of a Moustache
1931 Director
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★ 4.7
Oshikiri shinkonki
1930 Director
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★ 6.3
Junjô
1930 Director
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Chanbara fûfu
1930 Director
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Fukeiki jidai
1930 Director
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Ai wa chikara da
1930 Director
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Hana yori dango - Studio F no ohanami
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