Directing
Mikio Naruse
JA cinema · 86 credits
Born
20 August 1905
Died
2 July 1969 (aged 63)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Also known as 나루세 미키오 · Микио Нарусэ · 미키오 나루세 · 成瀬 巳喜男
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
When Love Awakens
Original Story
Two in the Shadow
Director
Moment of Terror
Director
Yearning
Director, Producer, Story
A Woman's Life
Director
The Wiser Age
Director
A Wanderer's Notebook
Director, Producer
The Other Woman
Director
The Approach of Autumn
Director, Producer
The Lovelorn Geisha
Director, Executive Producer
Summer Clouds
Director
Little Peach
Director, Screenplay
Untamed Woman
Director
Flowing
Director
Sudden Rain
Director
A Wife's Heart
Director
Floating Clouds
Director
The First Kiss
Director, Executive Producer
Late Chrysanthemums
Director
Wife
Director
Brother and Sister
Director
Husband and Wife
Director
Mother
Director
Okuni and Gohei
Director
Lightning
Director
Repast
Director
Ginza Cosmetics
Director
Dancing Girl
Director
White Beast
Director, Writer
Battle of Roses
Director
The Angry Street
Screenplay, Director
Delinquent Girl
Screenplay, Director
Spring Awakens
Director, Writer
Four Love Stories
Director
Both You and I
Director, Writer
Until Victory Day
Director
This Happy Life
Director, Screenplay
The Way of Drama
Director
The Song Lantern
Director
Mother Never Dies
Director
Hideko the Bus Conductor
Director, Writer
A Fond Face from the Past
Director, Screenplay, Writer
Shanghai Moon
Director
Travelling Actors
Director, Screenplay
A Gentle Breeze With Father
Screenplay
The Whole Family Works
Director, Screenplay
Sincerity
Director, Screenplay
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Director, Screenplay
A Woman's Sorrows
Director, Story, Screenplay
Avalanche
Director, Screenplay
Man of the House
Director, Writer
The Road I Travel with You
Director, Screenplay
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Director, Writer
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Director, Screenplay
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Director, Writer
The Girl in the Rumor
Director, Screenplay
Five Men in a Circus
Director
Street Without End
Director
Apart from You
Director, Screenplay
Every-Night Dreams
Director, Story
蒼氓
1933
Sôbô
Director
Moth-eaten Spring
Director
No Blood Relation
Director, Writer
Flunky, Work Hard!
Director, Screenplay
髭の力
1931
The Strength of a Moustache
Director, Writer
Hard Times
Director, Story
Pure Love
Director
Love and Power
Director