Direction: Mikio Naruse

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yûzô Kayama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yumi Shirakawa

Plot 19 year old girl loses husband in war. Bombing destroys his family's shop and the widow stays to rebuild it as the rest of the family flee and runs it...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Keiko Awaji

Plot Nobuko is a woman who suffered her husband's death and had to raise her son by herself. She also has to face disappointment when her son decides to marry a...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Yôko Tsukasa · Yu Fujiki · Mie Hama

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chikage Awashima · Masayuki Mori · Yuriko Hoshi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masayuki Mori · Mariko Okada · Chieko Nakakita

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi

Plot Biopic about the Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi who developed her career from scratch.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Yôko Sugi · Ken Uehara · Sô Yamamura

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masayuki Mori · Daisuke Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai

Plot A successful but aging madam of a Tokyo hostess bar realizes that she will soon have to retire.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiko Enonami · Kyôko Kagawa · Akihiko Katayama · Daisuke Kato

Plot A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Michiyo Aratama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot Although Naruse demonstrated mastery of both color and cinemascope in his 60s films, he reverted to black-andd-white Academy format for his antepenultimate film. Perhaps this use of a conservative format...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jun Fujimaki · Kamatari Fujiwara · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Uehara · Setsuko Hara · Yukiko Shimazaki · Yôko Sugi

Plot Set shortly after World War II, Repast is about a struggling marriage between salaryman Hatsunosuke and his wife Michiyo. It focuses on the emotional crisis of the bored housewife. The...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Isuzu Yamada · Hideko Takamine · Mariko Okada

Plot The narrative, as adapted from a book by Kodo Aya, concerns Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka), a widow whose dire financial circumstances force her to take a housemaid assignment in a failing...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Hiroshi Koizumi

Plot It concerns an aging mother who lives in Tokyo, her five grown children, and several of their spouses, nearly all of whom have money troubles. When one of the daughters...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Yuji Hori

Plot In a village not far from Tokyo, Akaza and his wife Riki worry about their childrens' future. The eldest, Inokichi, is a gambler and a womaniser. The elder of the...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yôko Tsukasa · Akemi Kita · Reiko Dan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro · Haruko Sugimura · Takashi Shimura · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Mitsuko Miura · Kyôko Kagawa · Chieko Murata

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Jun Arai · Choko Iida · Teruko Kojima · Sumiko Kurishima

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yôko Tsukasa · Eitarô Ozawa · Daisuke Kato