Mikio Naruse
Director, Writer, Producer
August 20, 1905 — July 2, 1969 (63 years)
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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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
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| 1958 | Little Peach · as Screenplay |
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| 1950 | The Angry Street · as Screenplay |
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| 1944 | This Happy Life · as Screenplay |
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| 1941 | A Face from the Past · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | Travelling Actors · as Screenplay |
| 1939 | Sincerity · as Screenplay |
| 1939 | The Whole Family Works · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro · as Screenplay |
| 1937 | Avalanche · as Screenplay |
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| 1936 | The Road I Travel with You · as Screenplay |
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| 1935 | The Girl in the Rumor · as Screenplay |
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| 1935 | Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts · as Screenplay |
| 1933 | Apart from You · as Screenplay |
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| 1931 | Flunky, Work Hard! · as Screenplay |
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| 1960 | The Lovelorn Geisha · as Executive Producer |
| 1955 | The First Kiss · as Executive Producer |
| 1964 | Yearning · as Story |
| 1960 | The Lovelorn Geisha · as Story |
| 1937 | A Woman's Sorrows · as Story |
| 1933 | Every-Night Dreams · as Story |