Directing

Mikio Naruse

Born 1905-08-20

Tokyo, Japan

Department: Directing

Biography

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.

1952

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (121 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary	Self / Appearance	Movie	2005
When Love Awakens	Original Story	Movie	1969
Two in the Shadow	Director	Movie	1967
Moment of Terror	Director	Movie	1966
The Stranger Within a Woman	Director	Movie	1966
Yearning	Director	Movie	1964
Yearning	Producer	Movie	1964
Yearning	Story	Movie	1964
A Woman's Life	Director	Movie	1963
A Wanderer's Notebook	Director	Movie	1962
A Wanderer's Notebook	Producer	Movie	1962
The Wiser Age	Director	Movie	1962
The Other Woman	Director	Movie	1961
The Approach of Autumn	Director	Movie	1960
The Approach of Autumn	Producer	Movie	1960
The Lovelorn Geisha	Director	Movie	1960
The Lovelorn Geisha	Executive Producer	Movie	1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother	Director	Movie	1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs	Director	Movie	1960
A Whistle in My Heart	Director	Movie	1959
Summer Clouds	Director	Movie	1958
Little Peach	Director	Movie	1958
Little Peach	Screenplay	Movie	1958
Untamed Woman	Director	Movie	1957
Flowing	Director	Movie	1956
A Wife's Heart	Director	Movie	1956
Sudden Rain	Director	Movie	1956
The First Kiss	Director	Movie	1955
The First Kiss	Executive Producer	Movie	1955
Floating Clouds	Director	Movie	1955
Late Chrysanthemums	Director	Movie	1954
Sound of the Mountain	Director	Movie	1954
Brother and Sister	Director	Movie	1953
Wife	Director	Movie	1953
Husband and Wife	Director	Movie	1953
Lightning	Director	Movie	1952
Mother	Director	Movie	1952
Okuni and Gohei	Director	Movie	1952
Repast	Director	Movie	1951
Dancing Girl	Director	Movie	1951
Ginza Cosmetics	Director	Movie	1951
Battle of Roses	Director	Movie	1950
White Beast	Director	Movie	1950
White Beast	Writer	Movie	1950
The Angry Street	Screenplay	Movie	1950
The Angry Street	Director	Movie	1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka	Director	Movie	1950
Delinquent Girl	Screenplay	Movie	1949
Delinquent Girl	Director	Movie	1949
Spring Awakens	Director	Movie	1947
Spring Awakens	Writer	Movie	1947
Four Love Stories	Director	Movie	1947
Both You and I	Director	Movie	1946
Both You and I	Writer	Movie	1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro	Director	Movie	1946
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo	Director	Movie	1945
Until Victory Day	Director	Movie	1945
The Way of Drama	Director	Movie	1944
This Happy Life	Director	Movie	1944
This Happy Life	Screenplay	Movie	1944
The Song Lantern	Director	Movie	1943
Mother Never Dies	Director	Movie	1942
Hideko the Bus Conductor	Director	Movie	1941
Hideko the Bus Conductor	Writer	Movie	1941
Shanghai Moon	Director	Movie	1941
A Fond Face from the Past	Director	Movie	1941
A Fond Face from the Past	Screenplay	Movie	1941
A Fond Face from the Past	Writer	Movie	1941
Travelling Actors	Director	Movie	1940
Travelling Actors	Screenplay	Movie	1940
A Gentle Breeze With Father	Screenplay	Movie	1940
Keshô yuki	Story	Movie	1940
Sincerity	Director	Movie	1939
Sincerity	Screenplay	Movie	1939
The Whole Family Works	Director	Movie	1939
The Whole Family Works	Screenplay	Movie	1939
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro	Director	Movie	1938
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro	Screenplay	Movie	1938
Learn from Experience, Part Two	Director	Movie	1937
Learn from Experience, Part One	Director	Movie	1937
Avalanche	Director	Movie	1937
Avalanche	Screenplay	Movie	1937
A Woman's Sorrows	Director	Movie	1937
A Woman's Sorrows	Story	Movie	1937
A Woman's Sorrows	Screenplay	Movie	1937
Morning's Tree-Lined Street	Director	Movie	1936
Morning's Tree-Lined Street	Writer	Movie	1936
The Road I Travel with You	Director	Movie	1936
The Road I Travel with You	Screenplay	Movie	1936
Man of the House	Director	Movie	1936
Man of the House	Writer	Movie	1936
The Girl in the Rumor	Director	Movie	1935
The Girl in the Rumor	Screenplay	Movie	1935
Five Men in a Circus	Director	Movie	1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!	Director	Movie	1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!	Writer	Movie	1935
The Actress and the Poet	Director	Movie	1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts	Director	Movie	1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts	Screenplay	Movie	1935
Hana Yori Dango: Studio F's Cherry Blossom Viewing	Self	Movie	1935
Street Without End	Director	Movie	1934
Sôbô	Director	Movie	1933
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo	Director	Movie	1933
Every-Night Dreams	Director	Movie	1933
Every-Night Dreams	Story	Movie	1933
Apart from You	Director	Movie	1933
Apart from You	Screenplay	Movie	1933
No Blood Relation	Director	Movie	1932
No Blood Relation	Writer	Movie	1932
Chocolate Girl	Director	Movie	1932
Moth-eaten Spring	Director	Movie	1932
Crying to the Blue Sky	Director	Movie	1932
The Strength of a Moustache	Director	Movie	1931
The Strength of a Moustache	Writer	Movie	1931
Flunky, Work Hard!	Director	Movie	1931
Flunky, Work Hard!	Screenplay	Movie	1931
Love and Power	Director	Movie	1930
Hard Times	Director	Movie	1930
Hard Times	Story	Movie	1930
Pure Love	Director	Movie	1930
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay	Director	Movie	1930