As Director
Floating Clouds
1955
7.7
Mikio Naruse
Directing
Born
August 20, 1905
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Deceased
July 2, 1969
Biography
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.
The Filmography
As Director
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
7.3
As Director
Sound of the Mountain
1954
7.4
As Director
Brother and Sister
1953
6.6
As Director
Wife
1953
6.9
As Director
Husband and Wife
1953
6.6
As Director
Lightning
1952
7.1
As Director
Mother
1952
6.8
As Director
Okuni and Gohei
1952
6.4
As Director
Repast
1951
7.5
As Director
Dancing Girl
1951
6.3
As Director
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
6.1
As Director
Battle of Roses
1950
6.0
As Director, As Writer
White Beast
1950
6.0
As Director, As Writer
The Angry Street
1950
6.5
As Director
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
6.5
As Director, As Writer
Spring Awakens
1947
6.8
As Director
Four Love Stories
1947
5.8
As Director, As Writer
Both You and I
1946
6.0
As Director
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
6.0