Background
Mikio Naruse was born on 20 August 1905 in Tokyo, Japan.
成瀬 巳喜男
director producer screenwriter
Mikio Naruse was born on 20 August 1905 in Tokyo, Japan.
Naruse was a master, a teller of domestic dramas, small and sweeping, built around indomitable women. It'swidely known how impressive Hideko Takamine is in his films, not to mention Machiko Kyo and Masavuki Mori. And if there is only a time for a few films no Naruse film ever had commercial release in the United States or Great Britain—then Wife, Be Like a Bose! (35), Repast (51), Mother (52), Older Brother, Younger Sister (53), Sound of the Mountain (54), Floating Clouds (55), Flowing (56), When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (60), and Yearning (64).
There is nothing like knowing that one has still to see a body of great work. And no gamble as interesting as pushing the desire to its limit.