Mikio Naruse Movies

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

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

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

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

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

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

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...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

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

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

10 minutes 18fps, 35mm, silent, black and white. The film records the members of Studio F enjoying a cherry blossom viewing party, with the smiling...

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

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...