Mikio Naruse

Mikio Naruse ( Japanese 成瀬巳喜男 Naruse Mikio ; born August 20, 1905 in Tokyo , Japan , † July 2, 1969 in Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese director , writer and producer . Together with Yasujiro Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa , he was the most famous Japanese director of his time.

biography

Naruse was born in Tokyo in 1905. He began his career in 1920 as an outfitter for the Shochiku film studios. Just one year after his promotion to assistant director in 1929, he made his first own film, Fukeiki Jidai . In 1933 he moved to another studio, which later became known under the name Toho .

In the 1930s he achieved increasing success at the box office. The critics were also kind to him. His film Tsuma yo Bara no Yo ni won the Kinema Junpo Film Award . Two years before his death, he finished his final film, Midaregumo , which is considered one of his best.

In 2007 the Munich Film Museum dedicated a retrospective to him.

Filmography

Mikio Naruse made a total of 89 films between 1930 and 1967:

1930: Mr and Mrs sword game (Chambara fūfu)

1930: Pure Love (Junjō)

1930: Hard times (Fukeiki jidai)

1930: love is strict (Ai wa chikara da)

1930: A recording of shameless newlyweds (Oshikiri shinkonki)

1931: Nē kōfun shicha iya yo

1931: Nikai no himei

1931: Little employee, hold on! (Koshiben gambare)

1931: Fickleness comes on the train (Uwaki wa kisha ni notte)

1931: The severity of a beard (Hige no chikara)

1931: Under the neighbour's roof (Tonari no yane no shita)

1932: Onna wa tamoto o goyōjin

1932: Aozora ni naku

1932: Be great! (Eraku nare)

1932: Mottiger Spring (Mushibameru haru)

1932: Chokorēto gāru

1932: Without blood ties (Nasanu naka)

1932: Kashi no aru Tōkyō no fūkei

1933: Separated from you (Kimi to wakarete)

1933: Dreams Every Night (Yogoto no yume)

1933: A man with a woman's hairstyle (Boku no marumage)

1933: Two eyes (Sōbō)

1934: Road without End (Kagiri naki hodō)

1935: Three sisters with a pure heart (Otome gokoro sannin shimai) , first sound film Naruses

1935: Joyū to shijin

1935: wife! Be like a rose! (Tsuma yo bara no yo ni)

1935: Sākasu gonin-gumi

1935: Uwasa no musume

1936: Tōchūken Kumoemon

1936: Kimi to yuku michi

1936: Three-Lane Street of the Morning (Asa no namikimichi)

1937: A Woman's Worries (Nyonin aishū)

1937: Avalanche (Nadare)

1937: Kafuku: Zempen

1937: Kafuku: Kōhen

1938: Tsuruhachi Tsurujirō

1939: The whole family works (Hataraku ikka)

1939: Sincerity (Magokoro)

1940: Traveling Actor (Tabi yakusha)

1941: A Face of the Past (Natsukashi no kao)

1941: Shanhai no tsuki

1941: Hideko the bus conductor (Hideko no shashō-san) , first of 17 films with Hideko Takamine , his favorite actress

1942: mother never dies (Haha wa shinazu)

1943: The song lantern (Uta andon)

1944: That Happy Life (Tanoshiki kana jinsei)

1944: The Path of Drama (Shibaidō)

1945: Until victory (Shōri no hi made)

1945: A story of archery in Sanjusangendo (Sanjūsangen-dō tōshiya monogatari)

1946: Urashima Tarō no kōei

1946: Both you and me (Ore mo omae mo)

1947: Yottsu no koi no monogatari , segment 2 "Wakare mo tanoshi"

1947: Spring awakens (Haru no mezame)

1949: criminal girl (Furyō shōjo)

1950: Prof. Ishinaka's behavior report (Ishinaka sensei gyōjōki)

1950: Evil Street (Ikari no machi)

1950: White Beast (Shiroi yajū)

1950: Eaten bara

1951: Ginza cosmetics (Ginza geshō)

1951: Dancing Girl (Maihime)

1951: The meal (Meshi)

1952: Okuni and Gohei (Okuni to Gohei)

1952: mother (Okāsan)

1952: Lightning (Inazuma)

1953: married couple (Fūfu)

1953: wife (Tsuma)

1953: older brother, younger sister (Ani imōto)

1954: Music of the Mountain (Yama no oto)

1954: Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku)

1955: Driving clouds (Ukigumo)

1955: The Kiss, Part 3: Women's Ways ( Kuchizuke , segment 3 "Onna dōshi")

1956: downpour (Shūu)

1956: Heart of a Woman (Tsuma no kokoro)

1956: Flow (Nagareru)

1957: Wild Woman (Arakure)

1958: Anzukko

1958: Herringbone Clouds (Iwashigumo) , first cinemascope and color film by Naruse

1959: Whispers in Kotan (Kotan no kuchibue)

1960: When a woman goes up the stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki)

1960: daughter, wife, mother (Musume tsuma haha)

1960: Evening Current (Yoru no nagare)

1960: Autumn is approaching (Aki tachinu)

1961: Like the wife, like the wife (Tsuma to shite onna to shite)

1962: The Clever Age (Onna no za)

1962: Notes of my vagabonding (Hōrōki)

1963: A Woman's Life (Onna no rekishi)

1964: Confusion (Midareru)

1966: The stranger in the woman (Onna no naka ni iru tanin)

1966: hit and run (Hikinige)

1967: Torn Clouds (Midaregumo aka Zwei im Schatten)

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personal data
SURNAME	Naruse, Mikio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	成瀬巳喜男 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese director
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo , Japan
DATE OF DEATH	2nd July 1969
Place of death	Tokyo , Japan