Mikio Naruse Movies

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

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...

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

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

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...

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

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...

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, who...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

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...

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

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

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