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{{Short description|Japanese filmmaker (1905–1969)}}
[[Image:naruse.jpg|thumb|Mikio Naruse]]
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{{Infobox person
| image = Mikio Naruse cropped.jpg
| caption = Naruse in 1933
| native_name = 成瀬 巳喜男
| native_name_lang = ja
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|8|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Yotsuya]], [[Tokyo City]], Japan
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|7|2|1905|8|20|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Tokyo]], Japan
| occupation = Film director, screenwriter
| years_active = 1930–1967
| notable_works = {{plainlist|
* ''[[Repast (film)|Repast]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Lightning (1952 film)|Lightning]]'' (1952)
* ''[[Late Chrysanthemums]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Floating Clouds]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Flowing (film)|Flowing]]'' (1956)
* ''[[When a Woman Ascends the Stairs]]'' (1960)
}}
}}
 
{{nihongo|'''Mikio Naruse'''|成瀬 巳喜男|Naruse Mikio|20 August 1905 – 2 July 1969}} was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.<ref name="kotobank">{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%88%90%E7%80%AC%20%E5%B7%B3%E5%96%9C%E7%94%B7-1651619 |title=成瀬 巳喜男 |website=Kotobank |language=ja |access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="kinenote">{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/person.aspx?person_id=108351 |title=成瀬巳喜男 |website=Kinenote |language=ja |access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="jmdb">{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0213220.htm |title=成瀬巳喜男 |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja |access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref>
[[Mikio Naruse]] (&#25104;&#28716;&#24051;&#21916;&#30007; ''Naruse Mikio'') ([[August 20]], [[1905]] &ndash; [[July 2]], [[1969]]) was a Japanese film director, writer and producer who directed some 89 films spanning from the end of the silent era ([[1930]]) through the sixties ([[1967]]). His contemporaries were [[Yasujiro Ozu]] and [[Kenji Mizoguchi]]; together they were the three most prominent Japanese directors of the time, although his work remains the least well known outside Japan.
 
Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily ''[[shominShoshimin-gekieiga|shōshimin-eiga]]'' (''working-class"common people 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 arehave frequentlybeen compared with the works of [[YasujiroYasujirō Ozu]].<ref name="Richie">{{cite book |last=Richie |first=Donald |date=2005 |title=A Hundred Years of Japanese Film |___location=Tokyo, New York, London |publisher=Kodansha International |isbn=978-4-7700-2995-9|edition=Revised }}</ref> Many of his films in his later career were adaptations of the works of acknowledged Japanese writers. Titled a "major figure of Japan's golden age"<ref name="bfi" /> and "supremely intelligent dramatist",<ref name="Jacoby">{{cite book |last=Jacoby |first=Alexander |title=A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors |year=2008 |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |___location=Berkeley, California |isbn=978-1-933330-53-2 |pages=268–273}}</ref> he remains lesser known than his contemporaries [[Akira Kurosawa]], [[Kenji Mizoguchi]], and Ozu.<ref name="russell">{{cite book |last=Russell |first=Catherine |date=2008 |title=The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity |___location=Durham and London |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-4290-8}}</ref> Among his most noted films are ''[[Sound of the Mountain]]'', ''[[Late Chrysanthemums]]'', ''[[Floating Clouds]]'', ''[[Flowing (1956 film)|Flowing]]'' and ''[[When A Woman Ascends The Stairs]]''.<ref name="kotobank" /><ref name="russell" /><ref name="sharp">{{cite book|first=Jasper |last=Sharp |title=Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |year=2011}}</ref>
 
==Biography==
Naruse's style of melodrama is "like a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths", said [[Akira Kurosawa]].{{ref|k}}
===Early years===
Mikio Naruse was born in [[Tokyo]] in 1905 and raised by his brother and sister after his parents' early death. He entered Shirō Kido's [[Shōchiku]] film studio in the 1920s as a light crew assistant and was soon assigned to comedy director [[Yoshinobu Ikeda]]. It was not until 1930 that he was allowed to direct a film on his own. His debut film, the short slapstick comedy ''Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay'' (''Chanbara fūfū''), was edited by [[Heinosuke Gosho]] who tried to support the young filmmaker. The film was considered a success, and Naruse was allowed to direct the romance film ''Pure Love'' (''Junjo'').<ref name="Anderson-Richie">{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Joseph L. |last2=Richie |first2=Donald |author-link= |date=1959 |title=The Japanese Film – Art & Industry |url= |___location=Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo |publisher=Charles E. Tuttle Company |page= |isbn=}}</ref> Both films, like the majority of his early works at Shōchiku, are regarded as lost.<ref name="bfi" />
 
Naruse's earliest extant work is the short ''[[Flunky, Work Hard!]]'' (1931), a mixture of comedy and domestic drama.<ref name="russell" /> In 1933–1934, he directed a series of [[Silent film|silent]] melodramas, ''[[Apart From You]]'', ''[[Every-Night Dreams]]'', and ''[[Street Without End]]'', which centered on women confronted with hostile environments and practical responsibilities, and demonstrated "a considerable stylistic virtuosity" (Alexander Jacoby).<ref name="Jacoby" /> Unsatisfied with the working conditions at Shōchiku and the projects he was assigned to, Naruse left Shōchiku in 1934 and moved to P.C.L. studios (Photo Chemical Laboratories, which later became [[Toho]]).<ref name="Anderson-Richie" />
== Biographical information ==
Mikio Naruse was born in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], in 1905. For a number of years he worked at [[Shochiku]] under [[Shido Kiro]] as a property manager and then as an assistant director. He was not permitted to direct a film at Shochiku until 1930, when he made his debut film, ''Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay'' (''Chanbara f&#363;f&#363;'').
 
His first major film was the [[comedy drama]] ''[[Wife! Be Like a Rose!]]'' (1935). It was elected as Best Movie of the Year by the magazine [[Kinema Junpo]], and was the first Japanese film to receive a theatrical release in the United States (where it was not well received).<ref name="galbraith">{{cite book |last=Galbraith IV |first=Stuart |date=2008 |title=The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography |___location=Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6004-9}}</ref><ref name="bfi">{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/best-japanese-film-every-year-from-1925-now |title=''The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now'' at the British Film Institute website |date=14 May 2020 |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="Jacoby" /> The film concerns a young woman whose father deserted his family for a former [[geisha]]. When she visits her father in a remote mountain village, it turns out that the second wife is far more suitable for him than the first. Film historians have emphasised the film's "sprightly, modern feel"<ref name="bfi" /> and "innovative visual style" and "progressive social attitudes".<ref name="Jacoby" />
Mikio Naruse's earliest extant work is ''Flunky, Work Hard'' (''Koshiben gambare,'' also known as ''Little Man Do Your Best'') from 1931, where he combined melodrama with slapstick, trying to meet the demands set by Shochiku's Kamata studio, who wanted a mix of laughter and tears. In 1933, he quit Shochiku, and began working for Photo-Chemical Laboratories (later known as [[Toho]]).
 
Naruse's films of the following years are often regarded as lesser works by film historians, owed in parts to weak scripts and acting,<ref name="russell" /><ref name="Anderson-Richie" /> although Jacoby noted the formal experimentation and sceptical attitude towards the institutions of marriage and family in ''Avalanche'' and ''A Woman's Sorrows'' (both 1937).<ref name="Jacoby" /> Naruse later argued that at the time he didn't have the courage to refuse some of the projects he was offered, and that his attempts to compensate weak content with concentration on technique didn't work out.<ref name="Anderson-Richie" />
At Toho, he achieved growing critical and commercial success in the 1930s, culminating in Naruse's first major film: ''Wife! Be Like a Rose!'' (1935) (''Tsuma yo Bara no Yo ni''). It won the [[Kinema Junpo]], and was the first Japanese film to receive theatrical release in the United States (where it was not well-received). The film concerns a young woman whose father deserted his family many years before for a geisha. As so often in Naruse's films, the portrait of the "other woman" is nuanced and sympathetic: it turns out, when the daughter visits her father in a remote mountain village, that the second wife is far more suitable for him than the first. The daughter brings her father back with her in order to smoothe the way for her own marriage, but the reunion with the first wife--a melancholy poetess--is disastrous: they have nothing in common, and the father returns to wife number two.
 
During the [[Pacific War|war years]], Naruse kept to what his biographer Catherine Russell referred to as "safe projects", including "home front films" like ''[[Sincerity (1939 film)|Sincerity]]''.<ref name="russell" /> The early 1940s saw the collapse of Naruse's first marriage with Sachiko Chiba, who had starred in ''Wife! Be Like a Rose!'' and whom he had married in 1936.<ref name="russell" /><ref name="Anderson-Richie" /> In 1941, he directed the comedy ''[[Hideko the Bus Conductor]]'' with [[Hideko Takamine]], who would later become his regular starring actress.
In the war years, Naruse went through a slow breakup with his wife [[Sachiko Kiba]] (who starred in ''Wife! Be Like a Rose!''). Naruse himself claimed to enter a period of prolonged slump as a result of this. The postwar period saw him work with collaborators more, taking on pure directing roles with scripts written by others. Notable successes included ''Mother'' (1952) (''Okasan''), a realistic look at family life in the postwar period, which received theatrical distribution in France, and 1955's ''Floating Clouds'' (''Ukigomo''), a doomed love story based (like many of Naruse's films) on a novel by [[Hayashi Fumiko]].
 
===Post-war career===
''When A Woman Ascends The Stairs'' (1960) (''Onna ga kaidan o agaru'') tells the story of an ageing bar hostess trying to adapt to modern times. The film is notable for having almost no close-up shots or exterior scenes. ''Scattered Clouds'' (1967) (''Miidaregumo'') (a.k.a. ''Two in the Shadow'') was his last film, and is regarded as one of his greatest works. A tale of impossible love between a widow and the driver who accidentally killed her husband, it was made 2 years before his death.
The 1951 ''[[Repast (film)|Repast]]'' marked a return for the director and was the first of a series of adaptations of works of female writer [[Fumiko Hayashi (author)|Fumiko Hayashi]],<ref name="bfi" /><ref name="Jacoby" /> including ''[[Lightning (1952 film)|Lightning]]'' (1952) and ''[[Floating Clouds]]'' (1955). All of these films featured women struggling with unhappy relationships or family relations and were awarded prestigious national film prizes. ''[[Late Chrysanthemums]]'' (1954), based on short stories by Hayashi, centered on four former geisha and their attempts to cope with financial restraints in post-war Japan. ''[[Sound of the Mountain]]'' (1954), a portrayal of a marriage falling apart, and ''[[Flowing (film)|Flowing]]'' (1956), which follows the decline of a once flourishing geisha house, were based on novels by [[Yasunari Kawabata]] and [[Aya Kōda]].
 
In the 1960s, Naruse's output decreased in number (partially owed to illness),<ref name="russell" /> while film historians at the same time detect an increase of sentimentality<ref name="Anderson-Richie" /> and "a more spectacular mode of melodrama" (Russell).<ref name="russell" /> ''[[When a Woman Ascends the Stairs]]'' (1960) tells the story of an aging bar hostess trying to start her own business, ''[[A Wanderer's Notebook]]'' (1964) follows the life of writer Fumiko Hayashi. His last film was ''[[Scattered Clouds]]'' (a.k.a. ''Two in the Shadow'', 1967). Two years later, Naruse died of cancer, aged 63.<ref name="russell" />
== Characteristics ==
Naruse is known as particularly exemplifying the Japanese concept of ''[[mono no aware]]''.
 
Naruse died in July 2, 1969, due to colon cancer. Hideko Takamine said years later that she never went to the funeral or his grave since she wanted her last memory of him to be "that of the healthy-looking face with the gentle smile that I saw when I visited his house in Seijo [District, Tokyo]." Takamine had visited Naruse months before at his house, and was surprised at how talkative and cheerful he was in her conversation with him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tohokingdom.com/blog/hideko-takamine-remembrances-of-mikio-naruse/|title=Hideko Takamine's remembrances of Mikio Naruse|date=27 July 2020 }}</ref>
His films contain very simple screenplays, with minimal dialogue, unobstructive camera work and low-key production design. His films are deliberately slow and leisurely, designed to magnify the everyday drama of ordinary Japanese people’s trials and tribulations, and leaving maximum scope for his actors to portray psychological nuances in every glance, gesture and movement.
 
==Style and themes==
He is known for filming economically. He often used money- and time-saving techniques that other directors shunned, such as shooting each actor delivering his or her lines of dialogue separately, and then splicing them together into chronological order in post-production (this reduced the amount of film wasted with each retake, and allowed a dialogue scene to be filmed with a single camera). Perhaps unsurprisingly, money is itself a major theme in these films, possibly reflecting Naruse's own childhood experience of poverty: Naruse is an especially mordant observer of the financial struggles within the family (as in ''Ginza Cosmetics'', 1951, where the female protagonist ends up supporting all her relatives by working in a bar, or ''A Wife's Heart'', 1956, where a couple is swindled out of a bank loan by the in-laws).
Naruse is known as particularly exemplifying the Japanese concept of "[[mono no aware]]", the awareness of the [[impermanence|transience]] of things, and a gentle sadness at their passing. "From the youngest age, I have thought that the world we live in betrays us", the director explained.<ref name="Anderson-Richie" /> His protagonists were usually women, and his studies of female experience spanned a wide range of social milieux, professions and situations. Six of his films were adaptations of a single novelist, [[Fumiko Hayashi (author)|Fumiko Hayashi]], whose pessimistic outlook seemed to match his own. From her work he made films about unrequited passion, unhappy families and stale marriages.<ref name="Jacoby" /> Surrounded by unbreakable family bonds and fixed customs, the characters are never more vulnerable than when they for once decide to make an individual move: "If they move even a little, they quickly hit the wall" (Naruse). Expectations invariably end in disappointment, happiness is impossible, and contentment is the best the characters can achieve. Of ''Repast'', ''[[Husband and Wife (1953 film)|Husband and Wife]]'' and ''[[Wife (film)|Wife]]'', Naruse said, "these pictures have little that happens in them and end without a conclusion–just like life".<ref name="Anderson-Richie" /> While his earlier films employ a more experimental style, Naruse's post-war films show a pairing down of style,<ref name=filmcomment>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmcomment.com/article/mikio-naruse-the-other-women-and-the-view-from-the-outside/ |last=Fujiwara |first=Chris |title=Mikio Naruse: The Other Women and The View from the Outside |date=September–October 2005 |magazine=Film Comment |___location=New York |access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref> relying on [[editing]], lighting, acting and [[Set (film and TV scenery)|sets]].<ref name="Jacoby" /><ref name="russell" />
 
== Filmography Reputation==
Naruse was described as serious and reticent, and even his closest and long-lasting collaborators like cinematographer Tamai Masao claimed to know nothing about him personally. He gave very few interviews<ref name="russell" /> and was, according to Akira Kurosawa, a very self-assured director who did everything himself on the [[Set (film and TV scenery)|set]].<ref name="kurosawa">{{cite book |last=Kurosawa |first=Akira |title=[[Something Like an Autobiography]] |date=1983 |publisher=Vintage Books |___location=New York |isbn=0-394-71439-3}}</ref> Hideko Takamine remembered, "Even during the shooting of a picture, he would never say if anything was good, or bad, interesting or trite. He was a completely unresponsive director. I appeared in about 20 of his films, and yet there was never an instance in which he gave me any acting instructions."<ref>{{cite news|title=A dose of reality |newspaper=The Independent |date=June 29, 2007}}</ref> [[Tatsuya Nakadai]] recalled one instant during the filming of ''When a Woman Ascends the Stairs'' where Naruse yelled at an assistant director for drawing a cardboard eye to indicate the point of reference of Hideko Takamine's eyeline.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X99EYhiN8k|title=Tatsuya Nakadai on When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)|website=[[YouTube]] |date=22 December 2017 }}</ref>
*''Scattered Clouds'' (''Midaregumo'' aka ''Two in the Shadow'') - [[1967]]
*''The Thin Line'' - [[1967]]
*''Moment of Terror'' (''Hikinige'' aka ''Hit and Run'') - [[1966]]
*''The Stranger Within a Woman'' (''Onna No Naka Ni Iru Tanin'') - [[1966]]
*''Yearning'' (''Midareru'') - [[1964]]
*''A Woman's Life'' (''Onna No Rekishi'') - [[1963]]
*''The Wiser Age'' - [[1962]]
*''Lonely Lane'' (''A Wanderer's Notebook'' aka ''Horoki'') - [[1962]]
*''As a Wife, As a Woman'' (''Tsuma Toshite Onna Toshite'') - [[1961]]
*''Approach of Autumn'' (''Aki Tachinu'') - [[1960]]
*''Evening Stream'' (''Yoru No Nagare'') - [[1960]]
*''Daughters, Wives and a Mother'' (''Musume Tsuma Haha'') - [[1960]]
*''When a Woman Ascends the Stairs'' (''Onna Ga Kaidan O Agaru Toki'') - [[1960]]
*''Whistling in Kotan'' (''Kotan No Kuchibue'') - [[1959]]
*''Anzukko'' - [[1958]]
*''Herringbone Clouds'' (''Iwashigumo'') - [[1958]]
*''Untamed Woman'' (''Arakure'') - [[1957]]
*''Flowing'' (''Nagareru'') - [[1956]]
*''A Wife's Heart'' (''Tsuma No Kokoro'') - [[1956]]
*''Sudden Rain'' (''Shu-U'') - [[1956]]
*''Floating Clouds'' (''Ukigumo'') - [[1955]]
*''The Kiss, Part III: Women's Ways'' (''Kuchizuke, Part 3: Onna Doshi'') - [[1955]]
*''Late Chrysanthemums'' (''Bangiku'') - [[1954]]
*''Sound of the Mountain'' (''Yama No Oto'') - [[1954]]
*''Older Brother, Younger Sister'' (''Ani Imoto'') - [[1953]]
*''Wife'' (''Tsuma'') - [[1953]]
*''Fufu'' - [[1953]]
*''Okuni to Gohei'' (''Okuni and Gohei'') - [[1952]]
*''Lightning'' (''Inazuma'') - [[1952]]
*''Mother'' (''Okasan'') - [[1952]]
*''Repast'' (''Meshi'') - [[1951]]
*''Ginza Cosmetics'' (''Ginza Gesho'') - [[1951]]
*''Dancing Girl'' (''Maihime'') - [[1951]]
*''Conduct Report on Prof. Ishinaka'' (''Ishinaka Sensei Gyojoki'') - [[1950]]
*''White Beast'' (''Shiroi Yaju'') - [[1950]]
*''Angry Street'' (''Ikari No Machi'') - [[1950]]
*''Delinquent Girl'' (''Furyo Shojo'') - [[1949]]
*''Spring Awakens'' (''Haru No Mezame'') - [[1947]]
*''Both You and I'' (''Ore Mo Omae Mo'') - [[1946]]
*''Until Victory Day'' (''Shori No Hi Made'') - [[1945]]
*''A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo'' (''Sanjusangendo Toshiya Monogatari'') - [[1945]]
*''The Way of Drama'' (''Shibaido'') - [[1944]]
*''This Happy Life'' (''Tanoshiki Kana Jinsei'') - [[1944]]
*''The Song Lantern'' (''Uta Andon'') - [[1943]]
*''Mother Never Dies'' (''Haha Wa Shinazu'') - [[1942]]
*''A Face from the Past'' (''Natsukashi No Kao'') - [[1941]]
*''Hideko the Bus-Conductor'' (''Hideko No Shasho-San'') - [[1941]]
*''Travelling Actors'' (''Tabi Yakusha'') - [[1940]]
*''The Whole Family Works'' (''Hataraku Ikka'') - [[1939]]
*''Sincerity'' (''Magokoro'') - [[1939]]
*''Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro'' - [[1937]]
*''Kimiko'' - [[1937]]
*''Avalanche'' (''Nadare'') - [[1937]]
*''A Woman's Sorrows'' (''Nyonin Aishu'') - [[1937]]
*''Morning's Tree-Lined Street'' (''Asa No Namikimichi'') - [[1936]]
*''Wife! Be Like a Rose!'' (''Tsuma yo Bara no Yo ni'') - [[1935]]
*''A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo'' (''Boku No Marumage'') - [[1933]]
*''Every Night Dreams'' (''Yogoto No Yume'') - [[1933]]
*''Two Eyes'' (''Sobo'') - [[1933]]
*''Apart from You'' (''Kimi to Wakarete'') - [[1933]]
*''Not Blood Relations'' (''Nasanu Naka'') - [[1932]]
*''Moth-eaten Spring'' (''Mushibameru Haru'') - [[1932]]
*''Be Great!'' (''Eraku Nare'') - [[1932]]
*''Flunky, Work Hard!'' (''Koshiben Gambare'') - [[1931]]
*''Fickleness Gets on the Train'' (''Uwaki Wa Kisha Ni Notte'') - [[1931]]
*''Under the Neighbours' Roof'' (''Tonari No Yane No Shita'') - [[1931]]
*''The Strength of a Moustache'' (''Hige No Chikara'') - [[1931]]
*''Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay'' (''Chambara Fufu'') - [[1930]]
*''A Record of Shamless Newlyweds'' (''Oshikiri Shinkonki'') - [[1930]]
*''Pure Love'' (''Junjo'') - [[1930]]
*''Ai Wa Chikara Da'' (''Love Is Strength'') - [[1930]]
*''Hard Times'' (''Fukeiki Jidai'') - [[1930]]
 
On one occasion, Naruse gave advice to Kihachi Okamoto on being a director, telling him: "You should stick to your own ideas. If you run from left to right and back again to suit the changing times, the results will be hollow."
==References==
#{{note|k}} [[University of California, Berkeley]] [[Pacific Film Archive]] ''Film Notes'', January/February 2006.
*Bock, Audie. ''Japanese Film Directors''. Kodansha America, 1985 (reprint). ISBN 0870117149.
*Bock, Audie. ''Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema'' (monograph). Japan Society Gallery, December 1985. ISBN 0865590672.
 
==External linksFilmography==
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*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0621540/ IMDB: Mikio Naruse]
! colspan=5 align="center" style="background:#FFFFFF"| Filmography of Mikio Naruse
*[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/naruse.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
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*[http://www.filmsasia.net/gpage99.html Rediscovering an Asian master]
! Year !! English Title !! Japanese Title !! [[Rōmaji]] Title !! Notes
*[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/20/naruse.html The materialist ethic of Mikio Naruse]
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*[http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/naruse.html Strictly Film School reviews]
|colspan=5 align="center" style="background:#ffffff"|Silent films
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| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=5| 1930
| ''Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay''
| チャンバラ夫婦
| ''Chambara fufu''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost. Also entitled ''Intimate Love''
|-
| ''Pure Love''
| 純情
| ''Junjo''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Hard Times''
| 不景気時代
| ''Fukeiki jidai''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Love Is Strength''
| 愛は力だ
| ''Ai ha chikara da''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''A Record of Shameless Newlyweds''
| 押切新婚記
| ''Oshikiri shinkonki''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=6| 1931
| ''Now Don't Get Excited''
| ねえ興奮しちゃいやよ
| ''Nee kofun shicha iya yo''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Screams from the Second Floor''
| 二階の悲鳴
| ''Nikai no himei''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''[[Flunky, Work Hard!]]''
| 腰弁頑張れ
| ''Koshiben gambare''
|
|-
| ''Fickleness Gets on the Train''
| 浮気は汽車に乗って
| ''Uwaki wa kisha ni notte''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''The Strength of a Moustache''
| 髭の力
| ''Hige no chikara''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Under the Neighbours' Roof''
| 隣の屋根の下
| ''Tonari no yani no shita''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=7| 1932
| ''Ladies, Be Careful of Your Sleeves''
| 女は袂を御用心
| ''Onna wa tamoto o goyojin''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Crying to the Blue Sky''
| 青空に泣く
| ''Aozora ni naku''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Be Great!''
| 偉くなれ
| ''Eraku nare''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Chocolate Girl''
| チョコレートガール
| ''Chokoreito garu''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''[[No Blood Relation]]''
| 生さぬ仲
| ''Nasanu naka''
|
|-
| ''The Scenery of Tokyo with Cake''
| 菓子のある東京風景
| ''Kashi no aru Tokyo no fûkei''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost. Short advertisement film
|-
| ''Moth-eaten Spring''
| 蝕める春
| ''Mushibameru haru''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=5| 1933
| ''[[Apart From You]]''
| 君と別れて
| ''Kimi to wakarete''
|
|-
| ''[[Every-Night Dreams]]''
| 夜ごとの夢
| ''Yogoto no yume''
|
|-
| ''A Married Woman's Hairstyle''
| 僕の丸髷
| ''Boku no marumage''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Two Eyes''
| 双眸
| ''Sobo''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''Happy New Year!''
| 謹賀新年
| ''Kingashinnen''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1934
| ''[[Street Without End]]''
| 限りなき舗道
| ''Kagirinaki hodo''
|
|-
|colspan=5 align="center" style="background:#FFFFFF"|Sound films
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=5| 1935
| ''[[Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts]]''
| 乙女ごころ三人姉妹
| ''Otome-gokoro sannin shimai''
|
|-
| ''The Actress and the Poet''
| 女優と詩人
| ''Joyu to shijin''
|
|-
| ''[[Wife! Be Like a Rose!]]''
| 妻よ薔薇のやうに
| ''Tsuma yo bara no yo ni''
| align="center"|Also entitled ''Kimiko''
|-
| ''Five Men in the Circus''
| サーカス五人組
| ''Saakasu goningumi''
|
|-
| ''[[The Girl in the Rumor]]''
| 噂の娘
| ''Uwasa no musume''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=3| 1936
| ''Man of the House''
| 桃中軒雲右衛門
| ''Tochuken Kumoemon''
|
|-
| ''The Road I Travel with You''
| 君と行く路
| ''Kimi to yuku michi''
|
|-
| ''[[Morning's Tree-Lined Street]]''
| 朝の並木路
| ''Asa no namikimichi''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=4| 1937
| ''A Woman's Sorrows''
| 女人哀愁
| ''Nyonin aishu''
|
|-
| ''Avalanche''
| 雪崩
| ''Nadare''
|
|-
| ''Learn from Experience, Part I''
| 禍福 前篇
| ''Kafuku zempen''
|
|-
| ''Learn from Experience, Part II''
| 禍福 後篇
| ''Kafuku kôhen''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1938
| ''[[Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro]]''
| 鶴八鶴次郎
| ''Tsuruhachi Tsurujirō''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1939
| ''[[The Whole Family Works]]''
| はたらく一家
| ''Hatarakku ikka''
|
|-
| ''[[Sincerity (1939 film)|Sincerity]]''
| まごころ
| ''Magokoro''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1940
| ''[[Travelling Actors (1940 film)|Travelling Actors]]''
| 旅役者
| ''Tabi yakusha''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=3| 1941
| ''A Fond Face from the Past''
| なつかしの顔
| ''Natsukashi no kao''
|
|-
| ''Shanghai Moon''
| 上海の月
| ''Shanhai no tsuki''
| align="center"|Incomplete footage survives
|-
| ''[[Hideko the Bus Conductor]]''
| 秀子の車掌さん
| ''Hideko no shashō-san''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1942
| ''Mother Never Dies''
| 母は死なず
| ''Haha wa shinazu''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1943
| ''[[The Song Lantern]]''
| 歌行燈
| ''Uta andon''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1944
| ''This Happy Life''
| 愉しき哉人生
| ''Tanoshiki kana jinsei''
|
|-
| ''The Way of Drama''
| 芝居道
| ''Shibaido''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1945
| ''Until Victory Day''
| 勝利の日まで
| ''Shori no hi made''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| ''A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo''
| 三十三間堂通し矢物語
| ''Sanjusangendo toshiya monogatari''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1946
| ''The Descendents of Taro Urashima''
| 浦島太郎の後裔
| ''Urashima Taro no koei''
|
|-
| ''Both You and I''
| 俺もお前も
| ''Ore mo omae mo''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1947
| ''Even Parting is Enjoyable''
| 別れも愉し
| ''Wakare mo tanoshi''
| align="center"| Part of anthology film ''Four Love Stories'' (''Yottsu no kai no monogatari'')
|-
| ''Spring Awakens''
| 春のめざめ
| ''Haru no mezame''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1949
| ''The Delinquent Girl''
| 不良少女
| ''Furyo shojo''
| style="background:#A9A9A9" align="center"|Lost
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=4| 1950
| ''[[Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka]]''
| 石中先生行状記
| ''Ishinaka Sensei gyojoki''
|
|-
| ''Angry Street''
| 怒りの街
| ''Ikari no machi''
|
|-
| ''White Beast''
| 白い野獣
| ''Shiroi yaju''
|
|-
| ''[[Battle of Roses]]''
| 薔薇合戦
| ''Bara kassen''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=3| 1951
| ''[[Ginza Cosmetics]]''
| 銀座化粧
| ''Ginza keshō''
|
|-
| ''[[Dancing Girl (1951 film)|Dancing Girl]]''
| 舞姫
| ''Maihime''
|
|-
| ''[[Repast (film)|Repast]]''
| めし
| ''Meshi''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=3| 1952
| ''Okuni and Gohei''
| お国と五平
| ''Okuni to Gohei''
|
|-
| ''[[Mother (1952 film)|Mother]]''
| おかあさん
| ''Okaasan''
|
|-
| ''[[Lightning (1952 film)|Lightning]]''
| 稲妻
| ''Inazuma''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=3| 1953
| ''[[Husband and Wife (1953 film)|Husband and Wife]]''
| 夫婦
| ''Fufu''
|
|-
| ''[[Wife (film)|Wife]]''
| 妻
| ''Tsuma''
|
|-
| ''[[Older Brother, Younger Sister]]''
| あにいもうと
| ''Ani Imoto''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1954
| ''[[Sound of the Mountain]]''
| 山の音
| ''Yama no oto''
| align="center"|Also entitled ''The Thunder of the Mountain''
|-
| ''[[Late Chrysanthemums]]''
| 晩菊
| ''Bangiku''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1955
| ''[[Floating Clouds]]''
| 浮雲
| ''Ukigumo''
|
|-
| ''Women's ways''
| 女同士
| ''Onna dōshi''
| align="center"| Third segment of anthology film
''The Kiss'' (くちづけ, ''Kuchizuke'')
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=3| 1956
| ''[[Sudden Rain (1956 film)|Sudden Rain]]''
| 驟雨
| ''Shūu''
|
|-
| ''[[A Wife's Heart]]''
| 妻の心
| ''Tsuma no kokoro''
|
|-
| ''[[Flowing (1956 film)|Flowing]]''
| 流れる
| ''Nagareru''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1957
| ''[[Untamed (1957 film)|Untamed]]''
| あらくれ
| ''Arakure''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1958
| ''[[Anzukko]]''
| 杏っ子
| ''Anzukko''
|
|-
| ''[[Summer Clouds]]''
| 鰯雲
| ''Iwashigumo''
| align="center"|Naruse's first color film
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1959
| ''Whistling in Kotan''
| コタンの口笛
| ''Kotan no kuchibue''
| align="center"|Color film. Also entitled ''Whistle in My Heart''
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=4| 1960
| ''[[When a Woman Ascends the Stairs]]''
| 女が階段を上る時
| ''Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki''
|
|-
| ''[[Daughters, Wives and a Mother]]''
| 娘・妻・母
| ''Musume tsuma haha''
| align="center"|Color film
|-
| ''The Lovelorn Geisha''
| 夜の流れ
| ''Yoru no nagare''
| align="center"|Color film. Co-directed with [[Yuzo Kawashima]]
|-
| ''[[The Approach of Autumn]]''
| 秋立ちぬ
| ''Aki tachinu''
| align="center"|Also entitled ''Autumn Has Already Started''
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1961
| ''[[As a Wife, As a Woman]]''
| 妻として女として
| ''Tsuma toshite onna toshite''
| align="center"|Color film. Also entitled ''The Other Woman''
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1962
| ''A Woman's Place''
| 女の座
| ''Onna no za''
| align="center"|Also entitled ''The Wiser Age'' and ''A Woman's Status''
|-
| ''[[A Wanderer's Notebook]]''
| 放浪記
| ''Horoki''
| align="center"|Also entitled ''Her Lonely Lane''
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1963
| ''A Woman's Story''
| 女の歴史
| ''Onna no rekishi''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1964
| ''[[Yearning (1964 film)|Yearning]]''
| 乱れる
| ''Midareru''
|
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; rowspan=2| 1966
| ''[[The Stranger Within a Woman]]''
| 女の中にいる他人
| ''Onna no naka ni iru tanin''
| align="center"|Also entitled ''The Thin Line''
|-
| ''Hit and Run''
| ひき逃げ
| ''Hikinige''
| align="center"|Also entitled ''Moment of Terror''
|-
| rowspan=1 style=background:#efefef; | 1967
| ''[[Scattered Clouds]]''
| 乱れ雲
| ''Midaregumo''
| align="center"| Color film. Also entitled ''Two in the Shadow''
|}
 
==Legacy==
A 1973 retrospective on Mikio Naruse was presented at [[Japan Society (Manhattan)|Japan Society]], then noted as the “first film series ever devoted exclusively to the work of Naruse.”<ref name="japansociety.org">{{Cite web|url=https://japansociety.org/film/mikio-naruse-the-world-betrays-us/ |title=Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us – Part I - Japan Society |accessdate=2 June 2025|work=japansociety.org}}</ref> Film scholar Audie Bock curated two extensive retrospectives on Naruse in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center (then The Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and New York at Japan Society and the Museum of Modern Art in 1984–1985.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Bock |editor-first=Audie |date=1984 |title=Mikio Naruse: A Master of the Japanese cinema. A Retrospective |___location=Chicago |publisher=Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |isbn=978-0-8655-9067-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Richard F. |last=Shepard |work=The New York Times |title=A Retrospective of Films by Naruse |date=October 11, 1984 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/11/movies/a-retrospective-of-films-by-naruse.html |access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/6228/releases/MOMA_1985_0082_79.pdf |title=Mikio Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |___location=New York |date=September 1985 |access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref> Retrospectives have also been held at the [[Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive]] in 1981 and 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bampfa.org/program/films-mikio-naruse |title=The Films Of Mikio Naruse |website=BAMPFA |date=21 December 2014 |access-date=22 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bampfa.org/press/scattered-clouds-films-nikio-naruse-january-12-february-18-2006 |title=Scattered Clouds: The Films of Nikio Naruse (January 12 - February 18, 2006) |website=BAMPFA |date=12 January 2006 |access-date=22 July 2023}}</ref> at the [[Locarno Festival|Locarno Film Festival]] (1984),<ref name="russell" /> at festivals in Hong Kong (1987){{citation needed|date=July 2023}} and Melbourne (1988),<ref name="senses2002">{{cite web |url=https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/feature-articles/naruse/ |title=The Materialist Ethic of Mikio Naruse |last=Freiberg |first=Freda |publisher=Senses of Cinema |date=May 2002 |access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref> and at the [[Harvard Film Archive]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/mikio-naruse-a-centennial-tribute |title=Mikio Naruse: A centennial tribute |website=Harvard Film Archive |date=30 September 2005 |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref>
 
==Awards==
''Floating Clouds'' and ''Flowing'' have been voted into the 2009 All Time Best Japanese Movies lists by readers and critics of Kinema Junpo.<ref name="kinemajunpo">{{Cite web|url=https://mubi.com/lists/japanese-movies-all-time-best-200-kinejun-readers |title=Japanese Movies All Time Best 200 (Kinejun Readers) |access-date=25 January 2021 |publisher=mubi.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kinema Junpo Critics' Top 200 |url=https://mubi.com/lists/kinema-junpo-critics-top-200 |website=MUBI |access-date=8 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="sens">{{cite web|url=https://www.senscritique.com/liste/top_200_kinema_junpo_2009/725030= |title=Top 200 - Kinema Junpō (2009) |website=Sens critique |language=fr |access-date=22 July 2023}}</ref>
 
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Year of Award
! Name of Award
! Awarding Organization
! Country of<br />Origin
! Film Title<br />(if applicable)
|-
|1935
|[[Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year|Best Japanese Film]]<ref name="awards-wiferose">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027138/awards |title=Awards for ''Wife! Be Like a Rose!'' |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref>
|''[[Kinema Junpo]]''
|rowspan=11|Japan
|''[[Wife! Be Like a Rose!]]''
|-
|rowspan=3|1951
|[[Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film|Best Film]]<ref name="cinemahochi1951">{{Cite web |url=http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1951/ |title=1951 Blue Ribbon Awards |access-date=25 January 2021 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207075458/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1951/ |archive-date=2009-02-07}}</ref>
|[[Blue Ribbon Awards]]
|rowspan=3|''[[Repast (film)|Repast]]''
|-
|[[Mainichi Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]]<ref name="Mainichi51">{{cite web|title=1951 Mainichi Film Awards |url=http://mainichi.jp/mfa/history/006.html |access-date=25 January 2021 |language=ja}}</ref>
|rowspan=2|[[Mainichi Film Awards]]
|-
|[[Mainichi Film Award for Best Director|Best Director]]<ref name="Mainichi51"/>
|-
|rowspan=2|1952
|Best Film<ref name="cinemahochi1952">{{Cite web |url=http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1952/ |title=1952 Blue Ribbon Awards |access-date=25 January 2021 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207075503/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1952/ |archive-date=2009-02-07}}</ref>
|rowspan=2|Blue Ribbon Awards
|''[[Lightning (1952 film)|Lightning]]''
|-
|Best Director<ref name="cinemahochi1952"/>
|{{plainlist|
*''Lightning''
*''[[Mother (1952 film)|Mother]]''
}}
|-
|rowspan=5|1955
|Best Film<ref name="cinemahochi1955">{{Cite web |url=http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1955/ |title=1954 Blue Ribbon Awards |access-date=25 January 2021 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207075520/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1955/ |archive-date=2009-02-07}}</ref>
|Blue Ribbon Awards
|rowspan=5|''[[Floating Clouds]]''
|-
|Best Japanese Film<ref name="awards-floatingclouds">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048757/awards |title=Awards for ''Floating Clouds'' |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref>
|rowspan=2|''Kinema Junpo''
|-
|Best Japanese Director<ref name="awards-floatingclouds"/>
|-
|Best Film<ref name="Mainichi55">{{cite web|title=1955 Mainichi Film Awards |url=http://mainichi.jp/mfa/history/010.html |access-date=25 January 2021 |language=ja}}</ref>
|rowspan=2|Mainichi Film Awards
|-
|Best Director<ref name="Mainichi55"/>
|}
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
 
==Further reading==
* ''[[The Cinema of Naruse Mikio]]'' by Catherine Russell
* {{cite book |first=Catherine |last=Russell |title=Camera Obscura 60: New Women of the Silent Screen: China, Japan, Hollywood |chapter=Naruse Mikio's Silent Films: Gender and the Discourse of Everyday Life in Interwar Japan |pages=57–90 |year=2005 |publisher=Duke University Press |___location=Durham, N.C. |isbn=978-0-8223-6624-9}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.japannavigator.com/2012/03/japanese-masters-hayashi-fumiko.html |last=Blankestijn |first=Ad |title=Japanese Masters: Hayashi Fumiko (novelist, poet) |publisher=Japan Navigator |date=5 March 2012 |access-date=24 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701032420/http://www.japannavigator.com/2012/03/japanese-masters-hayashi-fumiko.html |archive-date=1 July 2015}}
* Bock, Audie, "Japanese Film Directors". Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978. Print, and Kodansha America, 1985 (reprint). {{ISBN|0-87011-714-9}}
* Hirano, Kyoko. Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Print
* {{cite web |url=http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/naruse-2 |title=Mikio Naruse |last=Jacoby |first=Alexander |publisher=Senses of Cinema |date=4 August 2015 |access-date=24 January 2021}}
* {{cite web |url=https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/notebook-roundtable-talking-silent-naruse |title=Mikio Naruse |last1=Kasman |first1=Daniel |last2=Sallitt |first2=Dan |last3=Phelps |first3=David |publisher=Mubi |date=30 May 2011 |access-date=24 January 2021}}
* The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo, New York: Kodansha, 1983. Print.
* McDonald, Keiko. From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Film. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. Print.
* Narboni, Jean. Interview with Antoine Thirion. “Naruse Series.” Trans. Chris Fujiwara. Cahiers du Cinéma Oct. 2008: 60. Print.
* {{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/naruseretro |title=NaruseRetro |publisher=Google Groups |access-date=24 January 2021}}
* Rimer, J. Thomas. “Four Plays by Tanaka Chikao.” Monumenta Nipponica Autumn 1976: 275–98. Print
* Sarris, Andrew. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968. Print
* {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/detailPerson.asp?personID=44021 |title=Toyoaki Yokota |publisher=Complete Index To World Film |access-date=24 January 2021}}
* {{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/03/10/director-mikio-naruse-a-name-finally-in-lights/1dfa815d-6d5a-4b9e-987c-b08d76d0f8ef/ |title=Director Mikio Naruse, A Name Finally in Lights |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Thomson |first=Desson |date=10 March 2006 |access-date=20 July 2023}}
 
==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=0621540|name=Mikio Naruse}}
* [http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/naruse-2/ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
* [https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/better-late-than-never-the-films-of-mikio-naruse Better Late Than Never: The Films of Mikio Naruse]
* [http://notcoming.com/features/naruse/ Flowing: The Films of Mikio Naruse]
* [http://filmref.com/tag/mikio-naruse/ Strictly Film School reviews]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229082236/http://nwasianweekly.com/old/20062504/jap20062504.htm The great Japanese director you've never heard of]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/20/naruse/ The materialist ethic of Mikio Naruse]
* [http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/notebook-roundtable-talking-silent-naruse Notebook Roundtable: Talking Silent Naruse]
* [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1787-eclipse-series-26-silent-naruse Silent Naruse] – [[Criterion Collection]] essay
* [https://mikionaruse.wordpress.com/ A Mikio Naruse Companion]
 
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