Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 20, 1905
Died
Jul 02, 1969
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Credits
86 titles
Mikio Naruse
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.
Known For
Filmography
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
When Love Awakens
Original Story
Two in the Shadow
Director
Moment of Terror
Director
The Stranger Within a Woman
Director
Yearning
Director
A Woman's Life
Director
A Wanderer's Notebook
Director
The Wiser Age
Director
The Other Woman
Director
The Approach of Autumn
Director
The Lovelorn Geisha
Director
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Director
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Director
A Whistle in My Heart
Director
Summer Clouds
Director
Little Peach
Director
Untamed Woman
Director
Flowing
Director
A Wife's Heart
Director
Sudden Rain
Director
The First Kiss
Director
Floating Clouds
Director
Late Chrysanthemums
Director
Sound of the Mountain
Director
Brother and Sister
Director
Wife
Director
Husband and Wife
Director
Lightning
Director
Mother
Director
Okuni and Gohei
Director
Repast
Director
Dancing Girl
Director
Ginza Cosmetics
Director
Battle of Roses
Director
White Beast
Director
The Angry Street
Screenplay
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Director
Delinquent Girl
Screenplay
Spring Awakens
Director
Four Love Stories
Director
Both You and I
Director
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Director
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Director
Until Victory Day
Director
The Way of Drama
Director
This Happy Life
Director
The Song Lantern
Director
Mother Never Dies
Director
Hideko the Bus Conductor
Director