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.
Moth-eaten Spring
(Director)
Mother
(Director)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
(Director)
Late Chrysanthemums
(Director)
Sound of the Mountain
(Director)
Flowing
(Director)
Okuni and Gohei
(Director)
Repast
(Director)
Hard Times
(Director)
Apart from You
(Screenplay)
Apart from You
(Director)
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
(Director)
The Girl in the Rumor
(Director)
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
(Director)
White Beast
(Director)
The Song Lantern
(Director)
White Beast
(Writer)
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
(Director)
Floating Clouds
(Director)
No Blood Relation
(Director)
Yearning
(Director)
Lightning
(Director)
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
(Director)
The Whole Family Works
(Director)
Sincerity
(Director)
Two in the Shadow
(Director)
Every-Night Dreams
(Director)
Flunky, Work Hard!
(Director)
Every-Night Dreams
(Story)
Flunky, Work Hard!
(Screenplay)
Street Without End
(Director)
Battle of Roses
(Director)
The Wiser Age
(Director)
Untamed Woman
(Director)
A Wanderer's Notebook
(Director)
Travelling Actors
(Director)
Ginza Cosmetics
(Director)
Wife
(Director)
A Woman's Life
(Director)
Summer Clouds
(Director)
Brother and Sister
(Director)
Sudden Rain
(Director)
The Thin Line
(Director)
The Approach of Autumn
(Director)
Five Men in a Circus
(Director)
The Actress and the Poet
(Director)
A Woman's Sorrows
(Director)
Until Victory Day
(Director)
Man of the House
(Director)
The Road I Travel with You
(Director)
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
(Director)
A Whistle in My Heart
(Director)
Learn from Experience, Part One
(Director)
Avalanche
(Director)
Learn from Experience, Part Two
(Director)
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
(Director)
Spring Awakens
(Director)
The Lovelorn Geisha
(Director)
Husband and Wife
(Director)
The Other Woman
(Director)
Hideko the Bus Conductress
(Director)
A Wife's Heart
(Director)
Dancing Girl
(Director)
This Happy Life
(Director)
Mother Never Dies
(Director)
Little Peach
(Director)
A Gentle Breeze With Father
(Screenplay)
Four Love Stories
(Director)
Moment of Terror
(Director)
The Way of Drama
(Director)
Both You and I
(Director)
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
(Director)
A Fond Face from the Past
(Director)
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
(Director)
The Girl in the Rumor
(Screenplay)
The Approach of Autumn
(Producer)
Hideko the Bus Conductress
(Writer)
A Wanderer's Notebook
(Producer)
Spring Awakens
(Writer)
Keshô yuki
(Story)
Hard Times
(Story)
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
(Screenplay)
A Woman's Sorrows
(Story)
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
(Director)
The Angry Street
(Director)
The Angry Street
(Screenplay)
The Strength of a Moustache
(Writer)
The Strength of a Moustache
(Director)
The First Kiss
(Director)
The Lovelorn Geisha
(Executive Producer)
The First Kiss
(Executive Producer)
A Fond Face from the Past
(Screenplay)
This Happy Life
(Screenplay)
The Whole Family Works
(Screenplay)
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
(Screenplay)
Pure Love
(Director)
A Fond Face from the Past
(Writer)
No Blood Relation
(Writer)
Sôbô
(Director)
Chocolate Girl
(Director)
Crying to the Blue Sky
(Director)
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
(Director)
Love and Power
(Director)
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
(Writer)
The Road I Travel with You
(Screenplay)
Man of the House
(Writer)
Both You and I
(Writer)
Sincerity
(Screenplay)
Delinquent Girl
(Screenplay)
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
(Writer)
Travelling Actors
(Screenplay)
A Woman's Sorrows
(Screenplay)
Little Peach
(Screenplay)
Yearning
(Story)
Yearning
(Producer)
Avalanche
(Screenplay)
Delinquent Girl
(Director)
Shanghai Moon
(Director)