Mikio Naruse
Japanese filmmaker (1905–1969)
7.73body-of-work score · ranked #128 of 2631 directors · 15 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- August 20, 1905 · Tokyo
- Died
- July 2, 1969 · Tokyo
- Nationality
- Japan, Empire of Japan
- Work
- film director, writer, film producer, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1955 · Japan · drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1955 #1 · Kurosawa's 100 favorite films
1.182 citations - 21.001 citation
- 30.631 citation
- 40.631 citation
- 5Motherおかあさん
1952 · Japan · drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1952 #7 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1954 #10
0.622 citations - 60.501 citation
- 7
1954 · Japan · drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1954 #7 · Sarris's annual top 10 1985 #9
0.482 citations - 80.431 citation
- 90.431 citation
- 100.391 citation
- 110.361 citation
- 120.321 citation
- 130.321 citation
- 140.291 citation
- 150.161 citation
Complete filmography
All 65 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1930Chanbara fûfu
- 1930Love Is Strength
- 1931Flunky, Work Hard
- 1932No Blood Relation
- 1933Apart from You
- 1933Every-Night Dreams
- 1934Five Men in a Circus
- 1934Street Without End
- 1935The Actress and The Poet
- 1935The Girl in the Rumour
- 1935Three Sisters With Maiden Hearts
- 1935Wife! Be Like a Rose!
- 1936Man of the House
- 1936Morning's Tree-Lined Street
- 1936The Road I Travel With You
- 1937A Woman's Sorrows
- 1937Avalanche
- 1937Learn from Experience Part I
- 1937Learn from Experience Part II
- 1938Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
- 1939Sincerity
- 1939The Whole Family Works
- 1940Travelling Actors
- 1941A Face from the Past
- 1941Hideko the Bus-Conductor
- 1942Mother Never Dies
- 1943The Song Lantern
- 1945A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
- 1946Both You And I
- 1947Spring Awakens
- 1950Battle of Roses
- 1950Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
- 1950White Beast
- 1951Dancing Girl
- 1951Ginza Cosmetics
- 1951Repast
- 1952Lightning
- 1952Mother
- 1952Okuni and Gohei
- 1953Husband and Wife
- 1953Older Brother, Younger Sister
- 1953Wife
- 1954Late Chrysanthemums
- 1954Sound of the Mountain
- 1955Floating Clouds
- 1955Kuchizuke
- 1956A Wife's Heart
- 1956Flowing
- 1956Shūu
- 1957Untamed
- 1958Anzukko
- 1958Summer Clouds
- 1959A Whistle in My Heart
- 1960Autumn Has Already Started
- 1960Daughters, Wives and a Mother
- 1960Evening Stream
- 1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
- 1961Poignant Story
- 1962A Wanderer's Notebook
- 1962A Woman's Place
- 1963A Woman's Life
- 1964Yearning
- 1966Moment of Terror
- 1966The Stranger Within a Woman
- 1967Scattered Clouds