Mikio Naruse Movies

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...

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

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....