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