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Mikio Naruse

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 ForDirecting
  • Born20 August 1905 (age 120)
  • Place of BirthTokyo, Japan

Mikio Naruse

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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 ForDirecting
  • Born20 August 1905 (age 120)
  • Place of BirthTokyo, Japan
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Poster
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
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2005
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Two in the Shadow
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7.7
1967
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The Thin Line
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7.3
1966
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Moment of Terror
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6.3
1966
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Yearning
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8.1
1964
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A Woman's Life
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7.0
1963
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The Wiser Age
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7.3
1962
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A Wanderer's Notebook
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7.2
1962
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The Other Woman
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6.3
1961
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
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8.0
1960
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
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7.111
1960
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The Approach of Autumn
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6.9
1960
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The Lovelorn Geisha
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6.333
1960
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A Whistle in My Heart
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6.3
1959
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Summer Clouds
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7.5
1958
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Little Peach
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5.8
1958
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Untamed Woman
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7.4
1957
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Flowing
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7.091
1956
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Sudden Rain
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6.536
1956
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A Wife's Heart
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6.8
1956
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Floating Clouds
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7.684
1955
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The First Kiss
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6.3
1955
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Late Chrysanthemums
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7.286
1954
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Sound of the Mountain
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7.418
1954
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Wife
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6.9
1953
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Brother and Sister
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6.563
1953
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Husband and Wife
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6.6
1953
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Mother
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6.833
1952
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Okuni and Gohei
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6.4
1952
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Lightning
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7.14
1952
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Repast
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7.523
1951
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Ginza Cosmetics
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6.091
1951
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Dancing Girl
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6.3
1951
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White Beast
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6.0
1950
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Battle of Roses
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6.0
1950
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
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6.5
1950
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The Angry Street
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6.5
1950
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Delinquent Girl
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1949
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Spring Awakens
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6.8
1947
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Four Love Stories
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5.8
1947
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Both You and I
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6.0
1946
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
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6.0
1946
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
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5.8
1945
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Until Victory Day
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1945
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This Happy Life
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6.0
1944
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The Way of Drama
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6.5
1944
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The Song Lantern
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6.8
1943
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Mother Never Dies
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6.0
1942
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Hideko the Bus Conductress
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7.0
1941
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A Fond Face from the Past
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5.9
1941
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Shanghai Moon
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1941
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Travelling Actors
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6.1
1940
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The Whole Family Works
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6.2
1939
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Sincerity
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5.4
1939
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
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6.3
1938
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A Woman's Sorrows
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6.7
1937
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Learn from Experience, Part One
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6.0
1937
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
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6.2
1937
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Avalanche
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6.5
1937
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Man of the House
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6.0
1936
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The Road I Travel with You
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6.3
1936
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
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6.7
1936
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
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6.958
1935
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
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6.375
1935
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The Girl in the Rumor
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5.9
1935
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Five Men in a Circus
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5.4
1935
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The Actress and the Poet
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6.2
1935
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Street Without End
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6.6
1934
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Apart from You
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6.925
1933
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Every-Night Dreams
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7.158
1933
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Sôbô
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1933
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
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1933
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Moth-eaten Spring
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1932
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No Blood Relation
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7.067
1932
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Chocolate Girl
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1932
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Crying to the Blue Sky
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1932
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Flunky, Work Hard!
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6.8
1931
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The Strength of a Moustache
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1931
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Hard Times
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1930
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Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
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1930
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Pure Love
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1930
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Love and Power
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1930