Mikio Naruse Movies

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

A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his...

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

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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

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

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

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...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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

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

Japanese domestic drama.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.