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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…
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- Untamed Woman (1957) Director
- Two in the Shadow (1967) Director
- Yearning (1964) Director
- Sudden Rain (1956) Director
- Floating Clouds (1955) Director
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) Director
- The Stranger Within a Woman (1966) Director
- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) Director
- The Wiser Age (1962) Director
- Little Peach (1958) Director
- A Wanderer's Notebook (1962) Director
- Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950) Director
- A Whistle in My Heart (1959) Director
- Summer Clouds (1958) Director
- A Woman's Life (1963) Director
- Moment of Terror (1966) Director
- The Lovelorn Geisha (1960) Director
- A Wife's Heart (1956) Director
- Flowing (1956) Director
- Sound of the Mountain (1954) Director
- The Other Woman (1961) Director
- The Approach of Autumn (1960) Director
- Brother and Sister (1953) Director
- Four Love Stories (1947) Director
- Lightning (1952) Director
- Ginza Cosmetics (1951) Director
- Husband and Wife (1953) Director
- Street Without End (1934) Director
- Late Chrysanthemums (1954) Director
- Avalanche (1937) Director
- Battle of Roses (1950) Director
- Mother (1952) Director
- Travelling Actors (1940) Director
- The First Kiss (1955) Director
- Repast (1951) Director
- Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938) Director
- Okuni and Gohei (1952) Director
- Dancing Girl (1951) Director
- Spring Awakens (1947) Director
- The Angry Street (1950) Director
- Learn from Experience, Part Two (1937) Director
- The Song Lantern (1943) Director
- Every-Night Dreams (1933) Director
- Apart from You (1933) Screenplay
- The Way of Drama (1944) Director
- Mother Never Dies (1942) Director
- Delinquent Girl (1949) Screenplay
- A Descendant of Urashima Taro (1946) Director
- Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941) Director
- Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936) Director
- White Beast (1950) Director
- The Whole Family Works (1939) Director
- No Blood Relation (1932) Director
- Wife (1953) Director
- Sincerity (1939) Director
- Both You and I (1946) Director
- A Gentle Breeze With Father (1940) Screenplay
- A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945) Director
- Moth-eaten Spring (1932) Director
- A Fond Face from the Past (1941) Director
- Shanghai Moon (1941) Director
- A Woman's Sorrows (1937) Director
- Keshô yuki (1940) Story
- The Girl in the Rumor (1935) Director
- Hard Times (1930) Director
- Sôbô (1933) Director
- Love and Power (1930) Director
- This Happy Life (1944) Director
- Until Victory Day (1945) Director
- Crying to the Blue Sky (1932) Director
- Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935) Director
- Flunky, Work Hard! (1931) Director
- Chocolate Girl (1932) Director
- Pure Love (1930) Director
- A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo (1933) Director
- Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) Director
- Five Men in a Circus (1935) Director
- Learn from Experience, Part One (1937) Director
- The Road I Travel with You (1936) Director
- Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary (2005) Cast
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