A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Микио Нарусэ
成瀬 巳喜男
나루세 미키오
미키오 나루세
Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan
Born:
August 20, 1905
Died:
July 2, 1969
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.
Director:
1930 Hard Times
1930 Love and Power
1930 Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930 Pure Love
1931 Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 The Strength of a Moustache
1932 Chocolate Girl
1932 Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 Moth-eaten Spring
1932 No Blood Relation
1933 A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 Apart from You
1933 Every-Night Dreams
1933 Sôbô
1934 Street Without End
1935 Five Men in a Circus
1935 The Actress and the Poet
1935 The Girl in the Rumor
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1936 Man of the House
1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 The Road I Travel with You
1937 A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Avalanche
1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1939 Sincerity
1939 The Whole Family Works
1940 Travelling Actors
1941 A Fond Face from the Past
1941 Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941 Shanghai Moon
1942 Mother Never Dies
1943 The Song Lantern
1944 The Way of Drama
1944 This Happy Life
1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 Until Victory Day
1946 A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 Both You and I
1947 Four Love Stories
1947 Spring Awakens
1949 Delinquent Girl
1950 Battle of Roses
1950 Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 The Angry Street
1950 White Beast
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Repast
1952 Lightning
1952 Mother
1952 Okuni and Gohei
1953 Brother and Sister
1953 Husband and Wife
1953 Wife
1954 Late Chrysanthemums
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1955 Floating Clouds
1955 The First Kiss
1956 A Wife's Heart
1956 Flowing
1956 Sudden Rain
1957 Untamed Woman
1958 Little Peach
1958 Summer Clouds
1959 A Whistle in My Heart
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 The Approach of Autumn
1960 The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1961 The Other Woman
1962 A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 The Wiser Age
1963 A Woman's Life
1964 Yearning
1966 Moment of Terror
1966 The Thin Line
1967 Two in the Shadow
Executive Producer:
1930 Hard Times
1930 Love and Power
1930 Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930 Pure Love
1931 Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 The Strength of a Moustache
1932 Chocolate Girl
1932 Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 Moth-eaten Spring
1932 No Blood Relation
1933 A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 Apart from You
1933 Every-Night Dreams
1933 Sôbô
1934 Street Without End
1935 Five Men in a Circus
1935 The Actress and the Poet
1935 The Girl in the Rumor
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1936 Man of the House
1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 The Road I Travel with You
1937 A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Avalanche
1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1939 Sincerity
1939 The Whole Family Works
1940 Travelling Actors
1941 A Fond Face from the Past
1941 Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941 Shanghai Moon
1942 Mother Never Dies
1943 The Song Lantern
1944 The Way of Drama
1944 This Happy Life
1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 Until Victory Day
1946 A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 Both You and I
1947 Four Love Stories
1947 Spring Awakens
1949 Delinquent Girl
1950 Battle of Roses
1950 Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 The Angry Street
1950 White Beast
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Repast
1952 Lightning
1952 Mother
1952 Okuni and Gohei
1953 Brother and Sister
1953 Husband and Wife
1953 Wife
1954 Late Chrysanthemums
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1955 Floating Clouds
1955 The First Kiss
1956 A Wife's Heart
1956 Flowing
1956 Sudden Rain
1957 Untamed Woman
1958 Little Peach
1958 Summer Clouds
1959 A Whistle in My Heart
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 The Approach of Autumn
1960 The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1961 The Other Woman
1962 A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 The Wiser Age
1963 A Woman's Life
1964 Yearning
1966 Moment of Terror
1966 The Thin Line
1967 Two in the Shadow
Producer:
1930 Hard Times
1930 Love and Power
1930 Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930 Pure Love
1931 Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 The Strength of a Moustache
1932 Chocolate Girl
1932 Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 Moth-eaten Spring
1932 No Blood Relation
1933 A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 Apart from You
1933 Every-Night Dreams
1933 Sôbô
1934 Street Without End
1935 Five Men in a Circus
1935 The Actress and the Poet
1935 The Girl in the Rumor
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1936 Man of the House
1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 The Road I Travel with You
1937 A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Avalanche
1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1939 Sincerity
1939 The Whole Family Works
1940 Travelling Actors
1941 A Fond Face from the Past
1941 Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941 Shanghai Moon
1942 Mother Never Dies
1943 The Song Lantern
1944 The Way of Drama
1944 This Happy Life
1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 Until Victory Day
1946 A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 Both You and I
1947 Four Love Stories
1947 Spring Awakens
1949 Delinquent Girl
1950 Battle of Roses
1950 Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 The Angry Street
1950 White Beast
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Repast
1952 Lightning
1952 Mother
1952 Okuni and Gohei
1953 Brother and Sister
1953 Husband and Wife
1953 Wife
1954 Late Chrysanthemums
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1955 Floating Clouds
1955 The First Kiss
1956 A Wife's Heart
1956 Flowing
1956 Sudden Rain
1957 Untamed Woman
1958 Little Peach
1958 Summer Clouds
1959 A Whistle in My Heart
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 The Approach of Autumn
1960 The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1961 The Other Woman
1962 A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 The Wiser Age
1963 A Woman's Life
1964 Yearning
1966 Moment of Terror
1966 The Thin Line
1967 Two in the Shadow
Screenplay:
1930 Hard Times
1930 Love and Power
1930 Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930 Pure Love
1931 Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 The Strength of a Moustache
1932 Chocolate Girl
1932 Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 Moth-eaten Spring
1932 No Blood Relation
1933 A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 Apart from You
1933 Every-Night Dreams
1933 Sôbô
1934 Street Without End
1935 Five Men in a Circus
1935 The Actress and the Poet
1935 The Girl in the Rumor
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1936 Man of the House
1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 The Road I Travel with You
1937 A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Avalanche
1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1939 Sincerity
1939 The Whole Family Works
1940 A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940 Travelling Actors
1941 A Fond Face from the Past
1941 Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941 Shanghai Moon
1942 Mother Never Dies
1943 The Song Lantern
1944 The Way of Drama
1944 This Happy Life
1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 Until Victory Day
1946 A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 Both You and I
1947 Four Love Stories
1947 Spring Awakens
1949 Delinquent Girl
1950 Battle of Roses
1950 Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 The Angry Street
1950 White Beast
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Repast
1952 Lightning
1952 Mother
1952 Okuni and Gohei
1953 Brother and Sister
1953 Husband and Wife
1953 Wife
1954 Late Chrysanthemums
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1955 Floating Clouds
1955 The First Kiss
1956 A Wife's Heart
1956 Flowing
1956 Sudden Rain
1957 Untamed Woman
1958 Little Peach
1958 Summer Clouds
1959 A Whistle in My Heart
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 The Approach of Autumn
1960 The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1961 The Other Woman
1962 A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 The Wiser Age
1963 A Woman's Life
1964 Yearning
1966 Moment of Terror
1966 The Thin Line
1967 Two in the Shadow
Story:
1930 Hard Times
1930 Love and Power
1930 Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930 Pure Love
1931 Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 The Strength of a Moustache
1932 Chocolate Girl
1932 Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 Moth-eaten Spring
1932 No Blood Relation
1933 A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 Apart from You
1933 Every-Night Dreams
1933 Sôbô
1934 Street Without End
1935 Five Men in a Circus
1935 The Actress and the Poet
1935 The Girl in the Rumor
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1936 Man of the House
1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 The Road I Travel with You
1937 A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Avalanche
1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1939 Sincerity
1939 The Whole Family Works
1940 A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940 Keshô yuki
1940 Travelling Actors
1941 A Fond Face from the Past
1941 Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941 Shanghai Moon
1942 Mother Never Dies
1943 The Song Lantern
1944 The Way of Drama
1944 This Happy Life
1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 Until Victory Day
1946 A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 Both You and I
1947 Four Love Stories
1947 Spring Awakens
1949 Delinquent Girl
1950 Battle of Roses
1950 Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 The Angry Street
1950 White Beast
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Repast
1952 Lightning
1952 Mother
1952 Okuni and Gohei
1953 Brother and Sister
1953 Husband and Wife
1953 Wife
1954 Late Chrysanthemums
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1955 Floating Clouds
1955 The First Kiss
1956 A Wife's Heart
1956 Flowing
1956 Sudden Rain
1957 Untamed Woman
1958 Little Peach
1958 Summer Clouds
1959 A Whistle in My Heart
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 The Approach of Autumn
1960 The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1961 The Other Woman
1962 A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 The Wiser Age
1963 A Woman's Life
1964 Yearning
1966 Moment of Terror
1966 The Thin Line
1967 Two in the Shadow
Writer:
1930 Hard Times
1930 Love and Power
1930 Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930 Pure Love
1931 Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 The Strength of a Moustache
1932 Chocolate Girl
1932 Crying to the Blue Sky
1932 Moth-eaten Spring
1932 No Blood Relation
1933 A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933 Apart from You
1933 Every-Night Dreams
1933 Sôbô
1934 Street Without End
1935 Five Men in a Circus
1935 The Actress and the Poet
1935 The Girl in the Rumor
1935 Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1936 Man of the House
1936 Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 The Road I Travel with You
1937 A Woman's Sorrows
1937 Avalanche
1937 Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 Learn from Experience, Part Two
1938 Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1939 Sincerity
1939 The Whole Family Works
1940 A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940 Keshô yuki
1940 Travelling Actors
1941 A Fond Face from the Past
1941 Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941 Shanghai Moon
1942 Mother Never Dies
1943 The Song Lantern
1944 The Way of Drama
1944 This Happy Life
1945 A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945 Until Victory Day
1946 A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946 Both You and I
1947 Four Love Stories
1947 Spring Awakens
1949 Delinquent Girl
1950 Battle of Roses
1950 Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 The Angry Street
1950 White Beast
1951 Dancing Girl
1951 Ginza Cosmetics
1951 Repast
1952 Lightning
1952 Mother
1952 Okuni and Gohei
1953 Brother and Sister
1953 Husband and Wife
1953 Wife
1954 Late Chrysanthemums
1954 Sound of the Mountain
1955 Floating Clouds
1955 The First Kiss
1956 A Wife's Heart
1956 Flowing
1956 Sudden Rain
1957 Untamed Woman
1958 Little Peach
1958 Summer Clouds
1959 A Whistle in My Heart
1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960 The Approach of Autumn
1960 The Lovelorn Geisha
1960 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1961 The Other Woman
1962 A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 The Wiser Age
1963 A Woman's Life
1964 Yearning
1966 Moment of Terror
1966 The Thin Line
1967 Two in the Shadow
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