Watch Order
0 / 12 watchedTwelve key films in release order.
About Mikio Naruse
Mikio Naruse directed 89 films from 1930 to 1967 on tight budgets. Wife Be Like a Rose from 1935 won Kinema Junpo and played America first. Repast from 1951, Mother and Lightning from 1952 set the postwar run. Sound of the Mountain and Late Chrysanthemums from 1954 adapt Kawabata and Hayashi.
Floating Clouds from 1955 ranks third greatest Japanese film in Kinema Junpo polling. Flowing from 1956 watches a geisha house fade, Untamed from 1957 stars Takamine. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs from 1960 follows a bar hostess, Yearning from 1964 rebuilds a shop, Scattered Clouds from 1967 closes the run. Naruse died in 1969.
Good to know
Watch in release order. Floating Clouds at two hours plays heaviest, save it after two shorter entries. Late Chrysanthemums adapts three Hayashi stories on retired geisha. Scattered Clouds mirrors his own fatal car theme as finale. Takamine stars across the core run. Start with Floating Clouds for the peak, then When a Woman Ascends the Stairs.
