Screenplay: 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 Tatsuya Ishiguro · Haruko Sugimura · Takashi Shimura · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Sadao Maruyama · Yuriko Hanabusa · Tomoko Ito

Direction Mikio Naruse · Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada · Akira Takarada · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Akio Isono · Sumiko Mizukubo · Reikichi Kawamura

Plot In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for Naruse, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kimiko Kaino · Mitsuko Miura · Tanie Kitabayashi

Plot he critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its catfights, hysterical tantrums,...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara · Tomoko Ito · Ko Mihashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikako Hosokawa · Masako Tsutsumi · Ryuko Umezono · Chitose Hayashi

Plot Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, writer-director Mikio Naruse's first sound film, tells the story of three very different siblings forced to work as samisen street musicians to make ends meet....

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Takako Irie · Hideo Saeki · Heihachiro Okawa · Chizuko Kanda

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Minoru Takada · Sachiko Murase · Takako Irie · Etchan

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Shizue Akiyama · Seiichi Kato · Tomoko Naniwa · Tokio Seki

Plot Mikio Naruse’s earliest available film, Flunky, Work Hard is the rare work by the director not to center around female characters. It is a charming, breezy short concerning an impoverished...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Noboru Kiritachi · Ranko Edogawa · Hideo Saeki · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kamatari Fujiwara · Daijirô Natsukawa · Tamae Kiyokawa

Plot Hideko the Bus Conductress, Mikio Naruse's deceptively lighthearted comic confection, is the writer-director's first collaboration (of a total 17) with the great Japanese actress Hideko Takamine. As the teenage bus...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kan Yanagiya · Minoru Takase · Shoji Kiyokawa

Plot Lovely comedy about two actors who play the front and back legs of a horse and feel their artistry is unappreciated. When the self important barber who funds their show...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Yuriko Hamada · Chieko Higashiyama · Isao Kimura · Keiko Kishi

Plot Sudo and Mori are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Ranko Akagi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ko Mihashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kingorô Yanagiya · Hisako Yamane · Meiko Nakamura · Entatsu Yokoyama

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Musei Tokugawa · Noriko Honma · Akira Ubukata · Kaoru Itô

Plot Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses. Eventually...