Mikio Naruse
Born: 1905-08-20 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1969-07-02
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1969
- When Love Awakens ... (Original Story)
1967
- Two in the Shadow ... (Director)
1966
- Moment of Terror ... (Director)
- The Stranger Within a Woman ... (Director)
1964
- Yearning ... (Director)
1963
- A Woman's Life ... (Director)
1962
- A Wanderer's Notebook ... (Director)
- The Wiser Age ... (Director)
1961
- The Other Woman ... (Director)
1960
- The Lovelorn Geisha ... (Director)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ... (Director)
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother ... (Director)
- The Approach of Autumn ... (Director)
1959
- A Whistle in My Heart ... (Director)
1958
- Little Peach ... (Director)
- Summer Clouds ... (Director)
1957
- Untamed Woman ... (Director)
1956
- Flowing ... (Director)
- A Wife's Heart ... (Director)
- Sudden Rain ... (Director)
1955
- Floating Clouds ... (Director)
- The First Kiss ... (Director)
1954
- Sound of the Mountain ... (Director)
- Late Chrysanthemums ... (Director)
1953
- Wife ... (Director)
- Brother and Sister ... (Director)
- Husband and Wife ... (Director)
1952
- Mother ... (Director)
- Lightning ... (Director)
- Okuni and Gohei ... (Director)
1951
- Repast ... (Director)
- Dancing Girl ... (Director)
- Ginza Cosmetics ... (Director)
1950
- The Angry Street ... (Director)
- Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka ... (Director)
- White Beast ... (Director)
- Battle of Roses ... (Director)
1949
- Delinquent Girl ... (Screenplay)
1947
- Four Love Stories ... (Director)
- Spring Awakens ... (Director)
1946
- A Descendant of Urashima Taro ... (Director)
- Both You and I ... (Director)
1945
- A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo ... (Director)
- Until Victory Day ... (Director)
1944
- This Happy Life ... (Director)
- The Way of Drama ... (Director)
1943
- The Song Lantern ... (Director)
1942
- Mother Never Dies ... (Director)
1941
- Hideko the Bus Conductor ... (Director)
- A Fond Face from the Past ... (Director)
- Shanghai Moon ... (Director)
1940
- Travelling Actors ... (Director)
- Keshô yuki ... (Story)
- A Gentle Breeze With Father ... (Screenplay)
1939
- Sincerity ... (Director)
- The Whole Family Works ... (Director)
1938
- Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro ... (Director)
1937
- Avalanche ... (Director)
- Learn from Experience, Part One ... (Director)
- Learn from Experience, Part Two ... (Director)
- A Woman's Sorrows ... (Director)
1936
- Man of the House ... (Director)
- The Road I Travel with You ... (Director)
- Morning's Tree-Lined Street ... (Director)
1935
- Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts ... (Director)
- Five Men in a Circus ... (Director)
- The Girl in the Rumor ... (Director)
- Wife! Be Like a Rose! ... (Director)
- The Actress and the Poet ... (Director)
- Hana Yori Dango: Studio F's Cherry Blossom Viewing as Self
1934
- Street Without End ... (Director)
1933
- Apart from You ... (Screenplay)
- Every-Night Dreams ... (Director)
- Sôbô ... (Director)
- A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo ... (Director)
1932
- Moth-eaten Spring ... (Director)
- No Blood Relation ... (Director)
- Crying to the Blue Sky ... (Director)
- Chocolate Girl ... (Director)
1931
- Flunky, Work Hard! ... (Director)
- The Strength of a Moustache ... (Writer)
1930
- Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay ... (Director)
- Love and Power ... (Director)
- Pure Love ... (Director)
- Hard Times ... (Director)