Screenplay: Mikio Naruse
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Mikio Naruse. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 33
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Hideko Takamine · Yûzô Kayama · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yumi Shirakawa
Synopsis 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 for 18 years out of love for her dead husband...
8.0
604 votes
8.0
604 votes
Spring Awakens
1947 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro · Haruko Sugimura · Takashi Shimura · Yuriko Hanabusa
7.4
54 votes
7.4
54 votes
Each Night I Dream
1933 · Movie · 64 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Jun Arai · Choko Iida · Teruko Kojima · Sumiko Kurishima
7.3
115 votes
7.3
115 votes
Little Peach
1958 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Sô Yamamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi
7.2
77 votes
7.2
77 votes
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Sachiko Chiba · Sadao Maruyama · Yuriko Hanabusa · Tomoko Ito
7.1
77 votes
7.1
77 votes
Evening Stream
1960 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse · Yûzô Kawashima
Cast Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada · Akira Takarada · Tatsuya Mihashi
7.0
24 votes
7.0
24 votes
After Our Separation
1933 · Movie · 61 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Akio Isono · Sumiko Mizukubo · Reikichi Kawamura
Synopsis 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 her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her...
6.9
84 votes
6.9
84 votes
White Beast
1950 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Sô Yamamura · Kimiko Kaino · Mitsuko Miura · Tanie Kitabayashi
Synopsis 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, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative...
6.8
42 votes
6.8
42 votes
The Girl in the Rumour
1935 · Movie · 54 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara · Tomoko Ito · Ko Mihashi
6.7
43 votes
6.7
43 votes
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Chikako Hosokawa · Masako Tsutsumi · Ryuko Umezono · Chitose Hayashi
Synopsis 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. O-Ren (Chikako Hosokawa), the eldest, is on a downward spiral...
6.7
63 votes
6.7
63 votes
A Woman's Sorrows
1937 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Takako Irie · Hideo Saeki · Heihachiro Okawa · Chizuko Kanda
6.6
24 votes
6.6
24 votes
6.6
52 votes
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931 · Movie · 29 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Shizue Akiyama · Seiichi Kato · Tomoko Naniwa · Tokio Seki
Synopsis 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 insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the...
6.6
83 votes
6.6
83 votes
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Noboru Kiritachi · Ranko Edogawa · Hideo Saeki · Yuriko Hanabusa
6.5
52 votes
6.5
52 votes
Hideko, the Bus Conductor
1941 · Movie · 54 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Hideko Takamine · Kamatari Fujiwara · Daijirô Natsukawa · Tamae Kiyokawa
Synopsis 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 conductress O-Koma, Takamine might best be described as beatification personified,...
6.5
55 votes
6.5
55 votes
Travelling Actors
1940 · Movie · 70 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kan Yanagiya · Minoru Takase · Shoji Kiyokawa
Synopsis 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 decides to replace them with a real horse, they plan...
6.4
44 votes
6.4
44 votes
The Angry Street
1950 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Yuriko Hamada · Chieko Higashiyama · Isao Kimura · Keiko Kishi
Synopsis 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 the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks...
6.4
22 votes
6.4
22 votes
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Sachiko Chiba · Ranko Akagi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ko Mihashi
6.3
33 votes
6.3
33 votes
This Happy Life
1944 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Kingorô Yanagiya · Hisako Yamane · Meiko Nakamura · Entatsu Yokoyama
6.0
22 votes
6.0
22 votes
A Working Family
1939 · Movie · 65 min. · Japan
Direction Mikio Naruse
Cast Musei Tokugawa · Noriko Honma · Akira Ubukata · Kaoru Itô
Synopsis 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 one rebels, with the support and sympathy of the other...
5.7
21 votes
5.7
21 votes