Mikio Naruse
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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.
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
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Floating Clouds (1955)
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Sound of the Mountain (1954)
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A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
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Repast (1951)
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Yearning (1964)
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Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
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Untamed Woman (1957)
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A Wife's Heart (1956)
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A Woman's Life (1963)
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Spring Awakens (1947)
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Wife (1953)
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Two in the Shadow (1967)
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Little Peach (1958)
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White Beast (1950)
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Flowing (1956)
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The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
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The Wiser Age (1962)
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The Other Woman (1961)
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Brother and Sister (1953)
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Mother (1952)
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Moment of Terror (1966)
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The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)
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Street Without End (1934)
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Lightning (1952)
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Summer Clouds (1958)
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Sudden Rain (1956)
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The Angry Street (1950)
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Learn from Experience, Part Two (1937)
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950)
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Husband and Wife (1953)
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The Approach of Autumn (1960)
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The Song Lantern (1943)
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro (1946)
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Okuni and Gohei (1952)
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A Whistle in My Heart (1959)
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Apart from You (1933)
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
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Delinquent Girl (1949)
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Four Love Stories (1947)
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The Way of Drama (1944)
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Dancing Girl (1951)
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Travelling Actors (1940)
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Avalanche (1937)
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The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
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No Blood Relation (1932)
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
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Shanghai Moon (1941)
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
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Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)
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Both You and I (1946)
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Hard Times (1930)
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Until Victory Day (1945)
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945)
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Battle of Roses (1950)
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Man of the House (1936)
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Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)
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The First Kiss (1955)
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Mother Never Dies (1942)
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Sincerity (1939)
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)
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The Road I Travel with You (1936)
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A Woman's Sorrows (1937)
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Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
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Every-Night Dreams (1933)
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Moth-eaten Spring (1932)
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Chocolate Girl (1932)
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A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo (1933)
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Five Men in a Circus (1935)
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Sôbô (1933)
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This Happy Life (1944)
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Flunky, Work Hard! (1931)
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Crying to the Blue Sky (1932)
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The Whole Family Works (1939)
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Love and Power (1930)
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The Strength of a Moustache (1931)
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The Actress and the Poet (1935)
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A Fond Face from the Past (1941)
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Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay (1930)
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Pure Love (1930)
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