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Yearning
1964
Director
Mikio Naruse
Directing
Born:August 20, 1905
Died:July 2, 1969(aged 63)
Birthplace:Tokyo, Japan
Nationality:Japan
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CommunityBiography
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.
Notable Works
Scattered CloudsA Wanderer's Notebook
Filmography (84 movies)
7.9
7.9
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Director
7.7
7.7
Floating Clouds
1955
Director
7.6
7.6
Two in the Shadow
1967
Director
7.5
7.5
Repast
1951
Director
7.5
7.5
Summer Clouds
1958
Director
7.4
7.4
Untamed Woman
1957
Director
7.3
7.3
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Director
7.3
7.3
The Thin Line
1966
Director
7.3
7.3
The Wiser Age
1962
Director
7.3
7.3
Late Chrysanthemums
1954
Director
7.2
7.2
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
Director
7.2
7.2
Every-Night Dreams
1933
Director
7.1
7.1
No Blood Relation
1932
Director
7.1
7.1
Flowing
1956
Director
7.1
7.1
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Director
7.1
7.1
Lightning
1952
Director
7.0
7.0
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935
Director
7.0
7.0
Hideko the Bus Conductress
1941
Director
7.0
7.0
A Woman's Life
1963
Director
6.9
6.9
Wife
1953
Director
6.9
6.9
Apart from You
1933
Director
6.9
6.9
The Approach of Autumn
1960
Director
6.8
6.8
A Wife's Heart
1956
Director
6.8
6.8
The Song Lantern
1943
Director
6.8
6.8
Spring Awakens
1947
Director
6.8
6.8
Mother
1952
Director
6.8
6.8
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931
Director
6.7
6.7
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
Screenplay
6.7
6.7
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936
Director
6.6
6.6
Husband and Wife
1953
Director
6.6
6.6
Street Without End
1934
Director
6.5
6.5
Avalanche
1937
Director
6.5
6.5
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
Director
6.5
6.5
The Angry Street
1950
Director
6.5
6.5
The Way of Drama
1944
Director
6.5
6.5
Sudden Rain
1956
Director
6.4
6.4
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935
Screenplay
6.4
6.4
Okuni and Gohei
1952
Director
6.3
6.3
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938
Director
6.3
6.3
A Whistle in My Heart
1959
Director
6.3
6.3
The Other Woman
1961
Director
6.3
6.3
The Lovelorn Geisha
1960
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Dancing Girl
1951
Director
6.3
6.3
The First Kiss
1955
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
The Road I Travel with You
1936
Screenplay
6.2
6.2
Brother and Sister
1953
Director
6.2
6.2
The Whole Family Works
1939
Director
6.2
6.2
The Actress and the Poet
1935
Director
6.2
6.2
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Director
6.1
6.1
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
Director
6.1
6.1
Travelling Actors
1940
Director
6.0
6.0
Both You and I
1946
Director
6.0
6.0
Man of the House
1936
Writer
6.0
6.0
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
Director
6.0
6.0
Battle of Roses
1950
Director
6.0
6.0
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
Director
6.0
6.0
This Happy Life
1944
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Mother Never Dies
1942
Director
5.9
5.9
The Girl in the Rumor
1935
Screenplay
5.9
5.9
A Fond Face from the Past
1941
Director
5.9
5.9
Little Peach
1958
Screenplay
5.8
5.8
Moment of Terror
1966
Director
5.8
5.8
Four Love Stories
1947
Director
5.8
5.8
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945
Director
5.5
5.5
White Beast
1950
Director
5.4
5.4
Sincerity
1939
Screenplay
5.4
5.4
Five Men in a Circus
1935
Director
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
2005
Hana Yori Dango: Studio F's Cherry Blossom Viewing
1935
as Self
Love and Power
1930
Director
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
1933
Director
Sôbô
1933
Director
Delinquent Girl
1949
Director
Shanghai Moon
1941
Director
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
1930
Director
A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940
Screenplay
Until Victory Day
1945
Director
Pure Love
1930
Director
Hard Times
1930
Director
The Strength of a Moustache
1931
Writer
Moth-eaten Spring
1932
Director
Chocolate Girl
1932
Director
Crying to the Blue Sky
1932
Director
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