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