Tag Archives: Mikio Naruse

A guy falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car collision. Finally she falls in love with him .

A young woman reaches maturity and yearns to know about her father. Her mother has poisoned her mind about the man who left her for another woman.

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

Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead.

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman’s prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers.

The businessman Ogata Shingo works with his son Shuichi, who is his secretary, and they live together in the suburb with their wives Yasuko and Kikuko respectively.

Mikio Naruse’s second adaptation of a novel by Fumiko Hayashi stars Hideko Takamine, the director’s frequent muse, as bus conductress Kiyoko Komori, the youngest daughter in a family of squabbling half-siblings.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages.

Kyoko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries an aspiring writer.