Mikio Naruse Movies

  • 1958
    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds

    7.51958HD

    A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

    Summer Clouds
  • 1960
    The Approach of Autumn

    The Approach of Autumn

    The Approach of Autumn

    6.91960HD

    A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

    The Approach of Autumn
  • 1940
    Travelling Actors

    Travelling Actors

    Travelling Actors

    6.11940HD

    This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

    Travelling Actors
  • 1952
    Lightning

    Lightning

    Lightning

    7.11952HD

    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...

    Lightning
  • 1934
    Street Without End

    Street Without End

    Street Without End

    6.61934HD

    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...

    Street Without End
  • 1953
    Husband and Wife

    Husband and Wife

    Husband and Wife

    6.61953HD

    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.

    Husband and Wife
  • 1954
    Sound of the Mountain

    Sound of the Mountain

    Sound of the Mountain

    7.3151954HD

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

    Sound of the Mountain
  • 1959
    A Whistle in My Heart

    A Whistle in My Heart

    A Whistle in My Heart

    6.31959HD

    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.

    A Whistle in My Heart
  • 1935
    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    71935HD

    Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!
  • 1937
    Learn from Experience, Part Two

    Learn from Experience, Part Two

    Learn from Experience, Part Two

    6.21937HD

    Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

    Learn from Experience, Part Two
  • 1936
    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    6.71936HD

    As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street
  • 1953
    Brother and Sister

    Brother and Sister

    Brother and Sister

    6.2221953HD

    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...

    Brother and Sister
  • 1949
    Delinquent Girl

    Delinquent Girl

    Delinquent Girl

    01949HD

    A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

    Delinquent Girl
  • 1939
    The Whole Family Works

    The Whole Family Works

    The Whole Family Works

    6.21939HD

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

    The Whole Family Works
  • 1951
    Ginza Cosmetics

    Ginza Cosmetics

    Ginza Cosmetics

    6.11951HD

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

    Ginza Cosmetics
  • 1958
    Little Peach

    Little Peach

    Little Peach

    5.91958HD

    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...

    Little Peach
  • 1933
    Every-Night Dreams

    Every-Night Dreams

    Every-Night Dreams

    7.21933HD

    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...

    Every-Night Dreams
  • 1963
    A Woman's Life

    A Woman's Life

    A Woman's Life

    71963HD

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

    A Woman's Life
  • 1953
    Wife

    Wife

    Wife

    6.91953HD

    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...

    Wife
  • 1937
    Avalanche

    Avalanche

    Avalanche

    6.51937HD

    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...

    Avalanche