Mikio Naruse Movies
- 1952

Mother
Mother6.9471952HD
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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- 1962

The Wiser Age
The Wiser Age7.31962HD
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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- 1951

Repast
Repast7.5641951HD
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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- 1958

Little Peach
Little Peach5.91958HD
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...
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- 1953

Husband and Wife
Husband and Wife6.61953HD
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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- 1960

The Lovelorn Geisha
The Lovelorn Geisha6.31960HD
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...
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- 1956

Sudden Rain
Sudden Rain6.51956HD
Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out...
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- 1955

The First Kiss
The First Kiss6.21955HD
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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- 1953

Wife
Wife6.91953HD
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
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- 1937

Avalanche
Avalanche6.51937HD
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...
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- 1940

Travelling Actors
Travelling Actors6.11940HD
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
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- 1959

A Whistle in My Heart
A Whistle in My Heart6.31959HD
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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- 1954

Late Chrysanthemums
Late Chrysanthemums7.21954HD
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days...
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- 1934

Street Without End
Street Without End6.61934HD
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...
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- 1933

Every-Night Dreams
Every-Night Dreams7.21933HD
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...
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- 1946

A Descendant of Urashima Taro
A Descendant of Urashima Taro61946HD
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...
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- 1951

Dancing Girl
Dancing Girl6.31951HD
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...
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- 1953

Brother and Sister
Brother and Sister6.2221953HD
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
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- 1947

Spring Awakens
Spring Awakens6.81947HD
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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- 1937

Learn from Experience, Part Two
Learn from Experience, Part Two6.21937HD
Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in...
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