89 years ago:
Street Without End (JP)
Original title: 限りなき舗道
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
1934-04-26
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/126517
#StreetWithoutEnd #MikioNaruse #ShinichiHimori #Movies

90 years ago:
Apart from You (JP)
Original title: 君と別れて
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
1933-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/91150
#ApartfromYou #MikioNaruse #Film

88 years ago:
The Actress and the Poet (JP)
Original title: 女優と詩人
Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neig...
1935-03-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/199263
#TheActressandthePoet #MikioNaruse #MasaoMishima #ClassicFilm

88 years ago:
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (JP)
Original title: 乙女ごころ三人姉妹
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...
1935-03-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/92946
#ThreeSisterswithMaidenHearts #MikioNaruse #OsamuTakizawa #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

57 years ago:
The Thin Line (JP)
Original title: 女の中にいる他人
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tor...
1966-02-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/138034
#TheThinLine #MikioNaruse #KeijuKobayashi #MichiyoAratama #AkikoWakabayashi #Movies

80 years ago:
The Song Lantern (JP)
Original title: 歌行燈
A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daught...
1943-02-11
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/92952
#TheSongLantern #MikioNaruse #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Un très beau film : lightning #Mikionaruse
https://japanonfilm.wordpress.com/2020/03/22/lightning-inazuma-1952/

Naruse paints the predicament of a middle aged woman in post-war Japan with great subtlety and grace. His frame-within-a-frame shots are masterful. Reiko, a young widow bound by tradition and duty, she doesn't quite know how to react when faced with the declaration of love. It's a marvelous acting by Hideko Takamine. The ending is quite melodramatic but all worth it for a long tracking shot of Reiko running in the backdrop of a beautiful northern town. #yearning #mikionaruse #japanesecinema

All films by #Director Mikio Naruse with actress Hideko Takamine, in a list on #Letterboxd : https://boxd.it/fsltK

Often overlooked in the west, Mikio Naruse was a Japanese director, writer and producer. Together with Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa, one of the most famous director of the Golden Age of #Japanese #Japan #Cinema.#JapaneseCinema #Classic #AsianCinema #MikioNaruse #HidekoTakamine

Yearning 1964 ‘乱れる’
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Yûzô Kayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mie Hama

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction. #Japan #Classicfilm #Cinema #Japanese #Films #Drama #Mikionaruse #Hidekoakamine

Yearning 1964 ‘乱れる’
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Yûzô Kayama, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mie Hama

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction. #Japan #Classicfilm #Cinema #Japanese #Films #Drama #Mikionaruse #Hidekoakamine