Awards & Winners

Mikio Naruse

Date of Birth 20-August-1905
Place of Birth Yotsuya, Tokyo
(Tokyo)
Nationality Japan
Also know as Eiichi Nariyama
Profession Film Producer, Film Director, Screenwriter
Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily shomin-geki films with female protagonists, portrayed by actresses such as Hideko Takamine, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Setsuko Hara. Because of his focus on family drama and the intersection of traditional and modern Japanese culture, his films are frequently compared with the works of Yasujirō Ozu. His reputation is just behind Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Ozu in Japan and internationally; his work remains less well known outside Japan than theirs. Akira Kurosawa called Naruse's style of melodrama, "like a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths".

Awards by Mikio Naruse

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mikio Naruse.

1955


Mainichi Eiga Concours Award for Best Film
Honored for : Floating Clouds

1951