Mikio Naruse

On her way to meet her boyfriend, Sugiko is hit by a car and hospitalized. When she doesn’t arrive at the meeting place, her boyfriend ...

Ryûnosuke Tsukigata won’t go to Tokyo. Instead, he gets off the train to get drunk with his old master. His hangers-on are frantic. ...

The story of a poor insurance salesman who struggles to provide for his wife and family. Release: Flunky Work Hard 1931 tt0022036 General: mkv | ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

This is ostensibly a sex-education film — with hardly any education! — but it’s incredibly beautiful. The spring and early ...

Italy is usually cited as the anchor of the neo-realist movement in cinema, but Mikio Naruse’s Ginza Cosmetics (1951) is a reminder that ...

Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi, has an idea for her bus that could avert the dwindling number of ...

The film title Nyonin Aishu means the sadness of women and this summarizes this story of a “conservative and indecisive” Japanese ...

Okaasan is the story of a poor, working class mother with a sick husband who sacrifices herself to support her family in suburban Tokyo. The film ...

Set in the Taishō period of Japan (dating from 1912 to 1926), Untamed follows the fiery Oshima (in a superbly eccentric performance by Takamine) ...

Mikio Naruse’s second adaptation of a novel by Fumiko Hayashi stars Hideko Takamine, the director’s frequent muse, as bus conductress ...

This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in “End of Summer”. The ...

A Tokyo salary girl lives with very serious bluestocking haiku-writing mother. The salary girl seeks to marry the attendant dish but needs an ...

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, ...

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 o view ...

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

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, ...

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, ...