Naruse Mikio

Name: Naruse Mikio
Native name: 成瀬巳喜男
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Born: August 20, 1905
Died: July 2, 1969

Mikio Naruse 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.

Among Naruse's most revered films are Late Chrysanthemums (1954), Floating Clouds (1955), and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960). Akira Kurosawa called Naruse's style of melodrama, "like a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths". Edit Biography

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1943	Himetaru Kakugo	Movie	0.0

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1967	Two in the Shadow	Movie	7.8
1966	Hit and Run	Movie	7.7
1966	The Stranger Within a Woman	Movie	7.6
1963	A Woman's Life	Movie	7.0
1962	A Wanderer's Notebook	Movie	7.3
1962	Onna no Za	Movie	7.6
1961	Poignant Story	Movie	7.3
1960	Autumn Has Already Started	Movie	7.0
1960	Evening Stream	Movie	6.2
1960	Daughters, Wives and a Mother	Movie	6.9
1960	When a Woman Ascends the Stairs	Movie	7.8
1959	Kotan no Kuchibue	Movie	6.5
1958	Iwashigumo	Movie	7.0
1957	Untamed	Movie	7.8
1956	Flowing	Movie	6.9
1956	A Wife's Heart	Movie	6.9
1956	Sudden Rain	Movie	6.6
1955	The First Kiss	Movie	0.0
1955	Floating Clouds	Movie	7.6
1954	Late Chrysanthemums	Movie	6.6
1954	Sound of the Mountain	Movie	7.8
1953	Older Brother, Younger Sister	Movie	7.2
1953	Tsuma	Movie	6.7
1953	Husband And Wife	Movie	6.0
1952	Lightning	Movie	7.6
1952	Mother	Movie	6.9
1952	Okuni and Gohei	Movie	6.0
1951	Repast	Movie	7.3
1951	Maihime	Movie	7.5
1951	Ginza Cosmetics	Movie	6.9
1950	Battle of Roses	Movie	4.0
1950	Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka	Movie	7.3
1947	Four Love Stories	Movie	0.0
1946	The Descendants of Taro Urashima	Movie	7.5
1945	A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo	Movie	7.0
1944	The Way of Drama	Movie	5.5
1943	The Song Lantern	Movie	7.0
1942	Mother Never Dies	Movie	7.0
1937	Learn from Experience Part II	Movie	6.9
1937	Learn from Experience Part I	Movie	6.9
1935	Five Men in a Circus	Movie	8.0
1935	The Actress and the Poet	Movie	6.7
1934	Street Without End	Movie	7.3
1932	No Blood Relation	Movie	7.0
1932	Chocolate Girl	Movie	0.0

Year	Title	Type	Rating
1964	Yearning	Movie	7.8
1958	Anzukko	Movie	6.4
1950	White Beast	Movie	7.1
1950	Ikari no Machi	Movie	6.0
1949	Bad Girl	Movie	0.0
1947	Spring Awakens	Movie	7.5
1946	Both You and I	Movie	6.0
1944	Tanoshiki Kana Jinsei	Movie	6.0
1941	Hideko the Bus Conductor	Movie	7.5
1941	A Fond Face from the Past	Movie	4.9
1940	Travelling Actors	Movie	5.9
1939	Sincerity	Movie	7.0
1939	The Whole Family Works	Movie	7.0
1938	Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro	Movie	7.0
1937	Avalanche	Movie	6.7
1936	Morning's Tree-Lined Street	Movie	6.0
1936	The Road I Travel with You	Movie	7.3
1936	Man of the House	Movie	6.5
1935	The Girl in the Rumor	Movie	7.7
1935	Wife! Be Like a Rose!	Movie	7.3
1935	Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts	Movie	7.3
1933	Every-Night Dreams	Movie	7.1
1933	Apart from You	Movie	7.2
1931	Koshiben Ganbare	Movie	6.8