Movie Database

Movies by Director - Mikio Naruse (92 [Missing: 36])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Ai wa chikara daNA1930 Drama Not Available
Chanbara fûfuNA1930 Comedy,Short Not Available
Fukeiki jidaiNA1930 Drama,Short Not Available
JunjôNA1930 Drama Not Available
Oshikiri shinkonkiNA1930 Drama,Short Not Available
The Strength of a MoustacheNA1931 Short Not Available
Flunky, Work Hard!NA1931 Comedy,Drama,Short Not Available
Now Don't Get ExcitedNA1931 Short Not Available
Screams from the Second FloorNA1931 Drama,Short Not Available
Under the Neighbours' RoofNA1931 Drama,Short Not Available
Fickleness Gets on the TrainNA1931 Short Not Available
Crying to the Blue SkyNA1932 Drama Not Available
Chocolate GirlNA1932 Drama Not Available
Be Great!NA1932 Short Not Available
Moth-eaten SpringNA1932 Drama Not Available
No Blood Relation [Nasanunaka]An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim - with the help of her gangster brother - the daughter she abandoned years before.1932Mikio NaruseDrama6.8 (355 votes)7920211228
Ladies, Be Careful of Your SleevesNA1932 Short Not Available
A Man with a Married Woman's HairdoNA1933 Drama Not Available
Apart from You [Kimi to wakarete]Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life's hardships.1933Mikio NaruseDrama7.1 (566 votes)6420220723
SôbôNA1933 Drama Not Available
Every Night I Dream [Yogoto no yume]A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until--her long-lost husband returns.1933Mikio NaruseDrama7.1 (548 votes)6420211228
Street Without End [Kagirinaki hodô]Story of a waitress whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a stiflingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.1934Mikio NaruseDrama6.9 (357 votes)8920220723
Actress and the Poet, The [Joyû to shijin]Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so1935Mikio NaruseComedy6.2 (102 votes)7320220315
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts [Otome-gokoro - Sannin-shimai]Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars. A number of loosely linked episodes ensue as the sisters who have different charac1935Mikio NaruseDrama6.9 (219 votes)7520211228
Five Men in the Circus [Saakasu goningumi]Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are on strike.1935Mikio NaruseDrama6.5 (87 votes)6520230619
Wife! Be Like a Rose! [Tsuma yo bara no yô ni]When she reaches adulthood, a precocious young woman sets out to find her biological father, who, as her mother tells her, abandoned them for another woman.1935Mikio NaruseDrama7.5 (442 votes)7420211228
Girl in the Rumour, The [Uwasa no musume]The suitor rejects elder sister Kunie but likes Kimoko, the younger one. Their father and his mistress have separate shops. Kimiko suddenly learns that she is her mother. Business is bad. The police visit when business shortcuts are 1935Mikio NaruseDrama6.7 (132 votes)5420211228
Morning's Tree-Lined Street [Ashita no namikimichi]Sachiko Chiba leaves her village to look for a job in Tokyo. Her parents warn her the big city is full of evil people. She expects to stay with Ranko Akagi, her friend from the village, who has a job in Tokyo. However, it turns out that Miss Akagi's job is as a bar hostess, a dead-end position. Miss Chiba is a bit terrified by all the strangers, but she gamely sets out, only to run into Heihachir? ?kawa, a salaryman who drinks at the bar. Miss Chiba decides to work at the bar until something better turns up, and Mr. ?kawa shows up almost every night. She fantasizes a bit about their getting married.1936Mikio NaruseDrama6.8 (88 votes)6020211228
Road I Travel with You, The [Kimi to yuku michi]"The Road I Travel With You" concerns two brothers of marriageable age and their mother, a former geisha who has been set up by an absent patron in a spacious country home in Kamakura. The futures of the two boys, torn between love m1936Mikio NaruseDrama6.0 (94 votes)6920211228
Man of the HouseNA1936 Drama Not Available
Learn From Experience, Part I [Kafuku zempen]nan1937Mikio NaruseDrama,Romance6.7 (95 votes)7820220414
Learn From Experience, Part I [Kafuku zempen]NA1937 Not Available
Learn from Experience, Part II [Kafuku kôhen]nan1937Mikio NaruseDrama,Romance6.5 (88 votes)7920220414
Learn from Experience, Part II [Kafuku kôhen]NA1937 Not Available
NadareAvalanche is a study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.1937Mikio NaruseDrama6.6 (221 votes)5920211228
Woman's Sorrows, A [Nyonin aishû]The irresolute heroine marries without love and finds herself regarded as an extra worker in her mother-in-law's house. She has to re-appraise own life.1937Mikio NaruseDrama6.6 (109 votes)7420211228
Tsuruhachi TsurujirôMr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he nitpicks often on her music and so they split. She marries a benefactor, but after a joint show, feels music is above mar1938Mikio NaruseDrama6.8 (158 votes)8820211228
Whole Family Works, The [Hataraku ikka]Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses. Eventually one rebels, with the support and sympathy...1939Mikio NaruseDrama6.4 (151 votes)6520220531
Sincerity [Magokoro]Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is not. At one time Tomiko's father was quite fond of Nobuko's mother.1939Mikio NaruseDrama7.0 (106 votes)6720211228
Travelling Actors [Tabi yakusha]Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse.1940Mikio NaruseComedy6.9 (183 votes)7020211228
Hideko, the Bus Conductor [Hideko no shashô-san]Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of passengers.1941Mikio NaruseComedy,Drama7.0 (324 votes)5420220531
A Face from the PastNA1941 Drama,Short Not Available
Shanghai MoonNA1941 Drama Not Available
Mother Never Dies [Haha wa shinazu]The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.1942Mikio NaruseDrama6.2 (43 votes)10420211228
Song Lantern, The [Uta-andon]The head of an acclaimed Noh (traditional, stylised Japanese drama form) troupe has a son whom he wants to inherit the troupe/ school. Touring in the provinces, the son seeks out a famed local amateur singer of Noh, a blind masseu...1943Mikio NaruseDrama6.8 (148 votes)9320220723
The Way of DramaNA1944 Drama Not Available
This Happy LifeNA1944 Comedy Not Available
Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo, A [Sanjûsangen-dô, tôshiya monogatari]Tale of martial skill set in the Edo era, and completed with difficulty during the last months of WWII: the son of an archer ,who killed himself after losing a contest, takes up his father's former profession.1945Mikio NaruseWar6.7 (123 votes)7720211228
Until Victory DayNA1945 Comedy,War Not Available
Descendants of Taro Urashima, The [Urashima Tarô no kôe]Repatriated soldier becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.1946Mikio NaruseDrama5.9 (37 votes)8320220414
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Spring Awakens [Haru no mezame]On the surface, the point here is education, which may seem a little perfunctory now anyway - the film closes with the doctor kindly advising the distraught mother to 'support and guide' her teenage daughter through the trouble of a coming pregnancy and adolescence in general. He instructs his own son to focus on studies and leave chasing skirt for later in life.1947Mikio NaruseDrama7.0 (128 votes)8920211228
Four Love StoriesNA1947 Drama Not Available
Bad GirlNA1949 Drama Not Available
Battle of Roses [Bara kassen]In Japan, after the death of Mr. Masago, her wife Satomi Masago loses the family's company "Lily Cosmetic" to Mr. Mogy due to huge amount of debts relative to withdraws of money from the company made by her husband. Mogy blackmails S1950Mikio NaruseDrama6.6 (97 votes)9820211228
Angry Street, The [Ikari no machi]Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer wh1950Mikio NaruseCrime,Drama6.8 (92 votes)10520211228
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka [Ishinaka sensei gyôjôki]Three stories of young love, linked by each of the sets of lovers being counseled by the wise Professor Ishinaka. In the first story, a young man and his family search for a cache of hidden gasoline left over from the war. A pretty g1950Mikio NaruseComedy6.8 (120 votes)9320220414
White Beast [Shiroi yajû]Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.1950Mikio NaruseDrama6.7 (109 votes)9720211228
Ginza CosmeticsNA1951 Drama Not Available
Dancer, The [Maihime]The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.1951Mikio NaruseDrama6.7 (128 votes)8520211228
Repast [Meshi]Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.1951Mikio NaruseDrama7.7 (1.6K votes)9720211228
Lightning [Inazuma]Poor, pathetic mother Ose (Kumeko Urabe) has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.1952Mikio NaruseDrama7.5 (656 votes)8720211228
Mother [Okaasan]A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.1952Mikio NaruseDrama7.6 (701 votes)9820211228
Okuni to GoheiKogure is the widow of an assassinated samurai and Otani was that man's pupil. They have been sent out to seek revenge on the murderer, Kogure's first suitor, but their long and arduous journey has so far been fruitless.1952Mikio NaruseDrama6.7 (100 votes)9120211228
Older Brother, Younger Sister [Ani imôto]In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. N1953Mikio NaruseDrama7.3 (397 votes)8620211228
Husband and Wife [Fûfu]A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.1953Mikio NaruseDrama7.0 (167 votes)8720211228
Wife [Tsuma]Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa's ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Each knows the other isn't happy, they themselves aren't happy, but they don't talk about their problems with each other, each festering in their unha1953Mikio NaruseDrama6.9 (280 votes)8920211228
Late Chrysanthemums [Bangiku]What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, an1954Mikio NaruseDrama7.4 (1K votes)10120211228
Sound Of The Mountain [Yama no oto]An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.1954Mikio NaruseDrama7.8 (1.8K votes)9520211228
The First KissNA1955 Drama,Romance Not Available
Floating Clouds [Ukigumo]A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.1955Mikio NaruseDrama,Romance7.7 (2.7K votes)12320211228
FlowingOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day1956Mikio NaruseDrama7.6 (1K votes)11720211228
ShûuThis wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.1956Mikio NaruseComedy,Drama7.1 (292 votes)9120211228
Wife's Heart, A [Tsuma no kokoro]A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop.She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer.1956Mikio NaruseDrama7.1 (185 votes)10120211228
Untamed Woman [Arakure]A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong persona1957Mikio NaruseDrama7.1 (211 votes)12120211228
AnzukkoKyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer. However, her husband's difficulties with his writing and his resentment over her father cause deep strains in the marriage.1958Mikio NaruseDrama7.0 (156 votes)11020211228
Summer Clouds [Iwashigumo]A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his 1958Mikio NaruseDrama7.4 (345 votes)12820211228
Whistle in My Heart, A [Kotan no kuchibue]nan1959Mikio NaruseDrama7.2 (89 votes)12620220731
Whistle in My Heart, A [Kotan no kuchibue]NA1959 Not Available
Autumn Has Already Started [Aki tachinu]Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family - wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer - and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bu1960Mikio NaruseDrama7.3 (277 votes)7920211228
Daughter, Wife, Mother [Musume tsuma haha]The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencin1960Mikio NaruseDrama7.2 (339 votes)12320211228
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs [Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki]A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.1960Mikio NaruseDrama8.1 (4.2K votes)11120211228
Evening Stream [Yoru no nagare]Aya is the Madame who runs a restaurant where Geishas meet with their customers to eat, drink, listen to music and sing.1960Yûzô Kawashima, Mikio NaruseDrama6.9 (105 votes)11120211228
Poignant Story [Tsuma to shite onna to shite]The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents.1961Mikio NaruseDrama7.4 (189 votes)10620221116
Wanderer's Notebook, AFumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.1962Mikio NaruseDrama7.5 (360 votes)12420211228
Woman's Place, A [Onna no za]nan1962Mikio NaruseDrama7.4 (115 votes)11120211228
Woman's Place, A [Onna no za]NA1962 Not Available
Woman's Life, A [Onna no rekishi]A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.1963Mikio NaruseDrama7.5 (193 votes)12620211228
Yearning [Midareru]After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.1964Mikio NaruseDrama,Romance8.0 (1.6K votes)9820211228
Hit and Run [Hikinige]A child is killed in a hit and run. The mother plots her revenge by posing as a maid in the house of the murderer.1966Mikio NaruseCrime,Drama7.0 (166 votes)10020211228
Stranger Within a Woman, The [Onna no naka ni iru tanin]Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?1966Mikio NaruseCrime,Drama7.3 (383 votes)10220211228
Two in the Shadow [Midaregumo]A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.1967Mikio NaruseDrama,Romance7.8 (1.1K votes)10820211228
The Scenery of Tokyo with CakeNA1932 Short Not Available
Onna doshiNA1955 Drama,Romance,Short Not Available
Even Parting Is EnjoyableNA1947 Drama,Short Not Available
Happy New YearNA1933 Short Not Available