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
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
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother ... (Director)
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ... (Director)
- The Approach of Autumn ... (Director)
- The Lovelorn Geisha ... (Director)
1959
- A Whistle in My Heart ... (Director)
1958
- Summer Clouds ... (Director)
- Little Peach ... (Director)
1957
- Untamed Woman ... (Director)
1956
- A Wife's Heart ... (Director)
- Flowing ... (Director)
- Sudden Rain ... (Director)
1955
- Floating Clouds ... (Director)
- The First Kiss ... (Director)
1954
- Late Chrysanthemums ... (Director)
- Sound of the Mountain ... (Director)
1953
- Husband and Wife ... (Director)
- Brother and Sister ... (Director)
- Wife ... (Director)
1952
- Mother ... (Director)
- Lightning ... (Director)
- Okuni and Gohei ... (Director)
1951
- Repast ... (Director)
- Dancing Girl ... (Director)
- Ginza Cosmetics ... (Director)
1950
- Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka ... (Director)
- The Angry Street ... (Screenplay)
- 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
- The Way of Drama ... (Director)
- This Happy Life ... (Director)
1943
- The Song Lantern ... (Director)
1942
- Mother Never Dies ... (Director)
1941
- Shanghai Moon ... (Director)
- Hideko the Bus Conductor ... (Director)
- A Fond Face from the Past ... (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 Two ... (Director)
- A Woman's Sorrows ... (Director)
- Learn from Experience, Part One ... (Director)
1936
- Morning's Tree-Lined Street ... (Director)
- The Road I Travel with You ... (Director)
- Man of the House ... (Director)
1935
- The Girl in the Rumor ... (Director)
- Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts ... (Director)
- Wife! Be Like a Rose! ... (Director)
- Five Men in a Circus ... (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 ... (Director)
- Every-Night Dreams ... (Director)
- A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo ... (Director)
- Sôbô ... (Director)
1932
- No Blood Relation ... (Director)
- Moth-eaten Spring ... (Director)
- Chocolate Girl ... (Director)
- Crying to the Blue Sky ... (Director)
1931
- Flunky, Work Hard! ... (Director)
- The Strength of a Moustache ... (Director)
1930
- Hard Times ... (Director)
- Love and Power ... (Director)
- Pure Love ... (Director)
- Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay ... (Director)