Mikio Naruse
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 20, 1905
- Died
- July 2, 1969 (aged 63)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Two in the Shadow
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The Stranger Within a Woman
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Moment of Terror
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Yearning
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A Woman's Life
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The Wiser Age
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A Wanderer's Notebook
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The Other Woman
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
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The Approach of Autumn
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The Lovelorn Geisha
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A Whistle in My Heart
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Summer Clouds
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Little Peach
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Untamed Woman
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Flowing
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Sudden Rain
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A Wife's Heart
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Floating Clouds
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The First Kiss
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Late Chrysanthemums
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Sound of the Mountain
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Wife
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Brother and Sister
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Husband and Wife
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Mother
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Okuni and Gohei
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Lightning
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Repast
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Ginza Cosmetics
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Dancing Girl
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White Beast
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Battle of Roses
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
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The Angry Street
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Delinquent Girl
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Spring Awakens
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Four Love Stories
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Both You and I
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
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Until Victory Day
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This Happy Life
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The Way of Drama
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The Song Lantern
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Mother Never Dies
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Hideko the Bus Conductor
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A Fond Face from the Past
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Shanghai Moon
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Travelling Actors
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The Whole Family Works
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Sincerity
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
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A Woman's Sorrows
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Learn from Experience, Part One
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
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Avalanche
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Man of the House
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The Road I Travel with You
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
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The Girl in the Rumor
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Five Men in a Circus
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The Actress and the Poet
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Street Without End
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Apart from You
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Every-Night Dreams
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Sôbô
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
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Moth-eaten Spring
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No Blood Relation
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Chocolate Girl
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Crying to the Blue Sky
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Flunky, Work Hard!
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The Strength of a Moustache
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Hard Times
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Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
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Pure Love
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Love and Power
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