Movies by Director - Mikio Naruse (92 [Missing: 32]) 
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| 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. | 1967 | Mikio Naruse | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (1.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1966 | Mikio Naruse | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (166 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| 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? | 1966 | Mikio Naruse | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (383 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1964 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 8.0 (1.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Woman's Life, A [Onna no rekishi]A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son. | 1963 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.5 (193 votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1962 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.5 (360 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Woman's Place, A [Onna no za]nan | 1962 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.4 (115 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1961 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.4 (189 votes) | 106 | 20221116 |
| 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 bu | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.3 (277 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1960 | Yûzô Kawashima, Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.9 (105 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| 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 experiencin | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.2 (339 votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1960 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 8.1 (4.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Whistle in My Heart, A [Kotan no kuchibue]nan | 1959 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.2 (89 votes) | 126 | 20220731 |
| 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 | 1958 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.4 (345 votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1958 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.0 (156 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| 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 persona | 1957 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.1 (211 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| 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 day | 1956 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.6 (1K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1956 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.1 (185 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| ShûuThis wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity. | 1956 | Mikio Naruse | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (292 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Onna doshiNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| The First KissNA | | | | | | 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. | 1955 | Mikio Naruse | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (2.7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| 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, an | 1954 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.4 (1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1954 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.8 (1.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 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. N | 1953 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.3 (397 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| 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 unha | 1953 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.9 (280 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1953 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.0 (167 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Lightning [Inazuma]Poor, pathetic mother Ose (Kumeko Urabe) has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men. | 1952 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.5 (656 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Mother [Okaasan]A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family. | 1952 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.6 (701 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1952 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.7 (100 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1951 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.7 (1.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1951 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.7 (128 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Ginza CosmeticsNA | | | | | | 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 S | 1950 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.6 (97 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| White Beast [Shiroi yajû]Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility. | 1950 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.7 (109 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| 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 wh | 1950 | Mikio Naruse | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (92 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| 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 g | 1950 | Mikio Naruse | Comedy | 6.8 (120 votes) | 93 | 20220414 |
| Bad GirlNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| 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. | 1947 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.0 (128 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Even Parting Is EnjoyableNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Four Love StoriesNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Both You and I [Ore mo omae mo]Get the IMDb AppView Full SiteHelpSite IndexIMDbProIMDb TVBox Office MojoIMDb DeveloperPress RoomAdvertisingJobsConditions of UsePrivacy PolicyInterest-Based Ads? 1990-2021 by IMDb.com, Inc. | 1946 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.2 (37 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Descendants of Taro Urashima, The [Urashima Tarô no kôe]Repatriated soldier becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party. | 1946 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 5.9 (37 votes) | 83 | 20220414 |
| 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. | 1945 | Mikio Naruse | War | 6.7 (123 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Until Victory DayNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| The Way of DramaNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| This Happy LifeNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| 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... | 1943 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.8 (148 votes) | 93 | 20220723 |
| Mother Never Dies [Haha wa shinazu]The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son. | 1942 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.2 (43 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1941 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.0 (324 votes) | 54 | 20220531 |
| Shanghai MoonNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| A Face from the PastNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Travelling Actors [Tabi yakusha]Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. | 1940 | Mikio Naruse | Comedy | 6.9 (183 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1939 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.0 (106 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| 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... | 1939 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.4 (151 votes) | 65 | 20220531 |
| 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 mar | 1938 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.8 (158 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Learn from Experience, Part II [Kafuku kôhen]nan | 1937 | Mikio Naruse | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (88 votes) | 79 | 20220414 |
| Learn From Experience, Part I [Kafuku zempen]nan | 1937 | Mikio Naruse | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (95 votes) | 78 | 20220414 |
| 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. | 1937 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.6 (221 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1937 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.6 (109 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1936 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.8 (88 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| 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 m | 1936 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.0 (94 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Man of the HouseNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| 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 | 1935 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.7 (132 votes) | 54 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1935 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.5 (87 votes) | 65 | 20230619 |
| 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. | 1935 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.5 (442 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| 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 so | 1935 | Mikio Naruse | Comedy | 6.2 (102 votes) | 73 | 20220315 |
| 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 charac | 1935 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.9 (219 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1934 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.9 (357 votes) | 89 | 20220723 |
| Happy New YearNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| SôbôNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| A Man with a Married Woman's HairdoNA | | | | | | 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. | 1933 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.1 (548 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Apart from You [Kimi to wakarete]Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life's hardships. | 1933 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 7.1 (566 votes) | 64 | 20220723 |
| The Scenery of Tokyo with CakeNA | | | | | | 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. | 1932 | Mikio Naruse | Drama | 6.8 (355 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Chocolate GirlNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Moth-eaten SpringNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Be Great!NA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Crying to the Blue SkyNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Ladies, Be Careful of Your SleevesNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Under the Neighbours' RoofNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| The Strength of a MoustacheNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Fickleness Gets on the TrainNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Flunky, Work Hard!NA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Screams from the Second FloorNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Now Don't Get ExcitedNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Ai wa chikara daNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Oshikiri shinkonkiNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Fukeiki jidaiNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| JunjôNA | | | | | | Not Available |
| Chanbara fûfuNA | | | | | | Not Available |