Mikio Naruse
Mikio Naruse (成瀬 巳喜男, Naruse Mikio, 20 August 1905 – 2 July 1969) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki ("common people 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 have been compared with the works of Yasujirō Ozu. Many of his films in his later career were adaptations of the works of acknowledged Japanese writers. Titled a "major figure of Japan's golden age" and "supremely intelligent dramatist", he remains lesser known than his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Ozu. Among his most noted films are Sound of the Mountain, Late Chrysanthem...
Filmography
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Two in the Shadow
Moment of Terror
The Stranger Within a Woman
Yearning
A Woman's Life
A Wanderer's Notebook
A Woman's Place
The Other Woman
The Approach of Autumn
The Lovelorn Geisha
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
A Whistle in My Heart
Summer Clouds
Little Peach
Untamed Woman
Flowing
A Wife's Heart
Sudden Rain
Floating Clouds
The First Kiss
Late Chrysanthemums
Sound of the Mountain
Brother and Sister
Wife
Husband and Wife
Lightning
Mother
Okuni and Gohei
Repast
Dancing Girl
Ginza Cosmetics
White Beast
The Angry Street
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Battle of Roses
Delinquent Girl
Spring Awakens
Four Love Stories
Both You and I
The Descendants of Taro Urashima
Until Victory Day
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
This Happy Life
The Way of Drama
The Song Lantern
Mother Never Dies
Hideko the Bus Conductor
Shanghai Moon
Travelling Actors
The Whole Family Works
Sincerity
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
A Woman's Sorrows
Learn from Experience, Part II
Learn from Experience, Part I
Avalanche
Man of the House
The Road I Travel with You
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Five Men in a Circus
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
The Actress and the Poet
The Girl in the Rumor
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Street Without End
Apart from You
Every-Night Dreams
No Blood Relation
Flunky, Work Hard!
Pure Love