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Film director, screenwriter, producer. Years active. 1930–1967. Mikio Naruse (成瀬 巳喜男, Naruse Mikio, 20 August 1905 – 2 July 1969) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. [1] [2] [3] Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook.
Mikio Naruse (1905-1969) Director. Writer. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Considered a major figure of Japan's 'golden age of cinema', Mikio Naruse was a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed 89 films in the period 1930 to 1967.
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- Every Night Dreams (1933) Only five of Naruse’s silent pictures have survived (handily collected in a single DVD edition by Criterion’s Eclipse imprint in the US), all much more stylistically dynamic than his better known later works.
- Wife! Be like a Rose! (1935) One of the earliest Japanese films to achieve critical attention in the west (it had a short run at New York’s Filmarte Theatre in 1937), Wife!
- Late Chrysanthemums (1954) One of the most exquisitely realised of all Naruse’s ‘women’s pictures’, Late Chrysanthemums eschews any driving narrative force for a stunningly nuanced study of emotional and economic complexities, rooted firmly in the quotidian dynamics of the present.
- Floating Clouds (1955) Despite being his most acclaimed and well-known film in Japan – it’s ranked by Kinema Junpo as the third greatest Japanese film of all time, behind Tokyo Story (1953) and Seven Samurai (1954) – Naruse’s gut-wrenching masterpiece is something of an anomaly in his filmography.
- Honourable Mention: No Blood Relation (1932) Naruse began his career near the end of the silent era with Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay (1930), though films without sound were prevalent in Japan throughout the decade.
- Honourable Mention: Wife (1953) The stories of housewives in unhappy marriages are Naruse’s bread and butter. He was an auteur of the shomin-geki genre, which focused on the daily hardships of the lower-middle class.
- Honourable Mention: Flowing (1956) If Naruse’s lead actress is not playing a housewife, she is sure to be playing a single working woman.Masako, Kamimura, and Ishikawa Yumi.
- Honourable Mention: Mother (1952) The Japanese film industry was long beholden to the wills of censorship officials, both from the wartime Imperial government as well as the occupying forces of the United States.
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May 22, 2003 · d. July 2, 1969, Tokyo, Japan. The films of Mikio Naruse have never been entirely unknown in the West. Predating the wider discovery of Japanese cinema in America and Europe by some fifteen years, his prizewinning Wife, Be Like a Rose (1935) was given a commercial release in New York, albeit to lukewarm reviews.
Features. A GESTURE AND A POSE: THE CINEMA OF MIKIO NARUSE. By Audie Bock. MIKIO NARUSE WON HIS ACCOLADES in a film world that allowed him to avoid directorial bravura while celebrating the challenges of everyday life. A prolific filmmaker in both the silent and sound eras, he received Japan’s “Best One” award in 1935 for Wife!
