Mikio Naruse
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-08-20
Day of Death
1969-07-02 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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".
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Known For
Acting
(2005)
Crew
(1967)
Two in the Shadow
Director
(1966)
The Thin Line
Director
(1966)
Moment of Terror
Director
(1964)
Yearning
Director, Story, Producer
(1963)
A Woman's Life
Director
(1962)
The Wiser Age
Director
(1962)
A Wanderer's Notebook
Director, Producer
(1961)
The Other Woman
Director
(1960)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Director
(1960)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Director
(1960)
The Approach of Autumn
Director, Producer
(1960)
The Lovelorn Geisha
Director, Executive Producer
(1959)
A Whistle in My Heart
Director
(1958)
Summer Clouds
Director
(1958)
Little Peach
Director, Screenplay
(1957)
Untamed Woman
Director
(1956)
Flowing
Director
(1956)
Sudden Rain
Director
(1956)
A Wife's Heart
Director
(1955)
Floating Clouds
Director
(1955)
The First Kiss
Director, Executive Producer
(1954)
Late Chrysanthemums
Director
(1954)
Sound of the Mountain
Director
(1953)
Wife
Director
(1953)
Brother and Sister
Director
(1953)
Husband and Wife
Director
(1952)
Mother
Director
(1952)
Okuni and Gohei
Director
(1952)
Lightning
Director
(1951)
Repast
Director
(1951)
Ginza Cosmetics
Director
(1951)
Dancing Girl
Director
(1950)
White Beast
Director, Writer
(1950)
Battle of Roses
Director
(1950)
(1950)
The Angry Street
Director, Screenplay
(1949)
Delinquent Girl
Screenplay, Director
(1947)
Spring Awakens
Director, Writer
(1947)
Four Love Stories
Director
(1946)
Both You and I
Director, Writer
(1946)
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Director
(1945)
(1945)
Until Victory Day
Director
(1944)
This Happy Life
Director, Screenplay
(1944)
The Way of Drama
Director
(1943)
The Song Lantern
Director
(1942)
Mother Never Dies
Director
(1941)
Hideko the Bus Conductress
Director, Writer
(1941)
A Fond Face from the Past
Director, Screenplay, Writer
(1941)
Shanghai Moon
Director
(1940)
Travelling Actors
Director, Screenplay
(1940)
A Gentle Breeze With Father
Screenplay
(1940)
Keshô yuki
Story
(1939)
The Whole Family Works
Director, Screenplay
(1939)
Sincerity
Director, Screenplay
(1938)
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Director, Screenplay
(1937)
A Woman's Sorrows
Director, Story, Screenplay
(1937)
Learn from Experience, Part One
Director
(1937)
Avalanche
Director, Screenplay
(1937)
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Director
(1936)
Man of the House
Director, Writer
(1936)
The Road I Travel with You
Director, Screenplay
(1936)
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Director, Writer
(1935)
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Director, Writer
(1935)
The Girl in the Rumor
Director, Screenplay
(1935)
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Director, Screenplay
(1935)
Five Men in a Circus
Director
(1935)
The Actress and the Poet
Director
(1934)
Street Without End
Director
(1933)
Apart from You
Screenplay, Director
(1933)
Every-Night Dreams
Director, Story
(1933)
Sôbô
Director
(1933)
(1932)
Moth-eaten Spring
Director
(1932)
No Blood Relation
Director, Writer
(1932)
Chocolate Girl
Director
(1932)
Crying to the Blue Sky
Director
(1931)
Flunky, Work Hard!
Director, Screenplay
(1931)
The Strength of a Moustache
Writer, Director
(1930)
Hard Times
Director, Story
(1930)
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
Director
(1930)
Pure Love
Director
(1930)
Love and Power
Director