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Feb 11, 2007 · Mikio Naruse – A Modern Classic. published. 11 February 2007. Eija Niskanen. Although Mikio Naruse is counted amongst the great Japanese classical masters of cinema, alongside Kurosawa, Mizoguchi and Ozu, his reputation has only recently reached the West. This is largely due to the lack of availability of his films, a situation lately improving.
Mar 16, 2021 · When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), dir. Mikio Naruse. Naruse’s directorial conception of space as a meaningful device is consistent throughout his career. For example, in When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), made almost a quarter of a century later, the boundaries between the open spaces and private spaces (the office in the Ginza bar, and the Bar Mama-san’s bedroom, which is only separated from the living room with a curtain) are very clearly defined, with actions and exchanges ...
Jun 17, 2024 · The best place to start – Flowing. In his autobiography, Akira Kurosawa, who was an assistant director on Naruse’s 1937 film Avalanche, described Naruse’s films as being like a deep river with a quiet surface disguising a fast-raging current underneath. He remarked that the flow of his shots was so magnificent that the splices seemed ...
Mikio, Naruse (1905–1969) By Anderson, Joel Neville. Naruse Mikio was a popular and critically renowned Japanese film director who was active from the early 1930s to the mid-1960s. He completed eighty-nine films, of which sixty-seven survive. From a poor family and raised by his sisters, he began work as a prop assistant at Shochiku studios ...
MIKIO NARUSE WON HIS ACCOLADES in a film world that allowed him to avoid directorial bravura while celebrating the challenges of everyday life. A prolific filmmaker in both the silent and sound eras, he received Japan’s “Best One” award in 1935 for Wife!
Mikio Naruse. Mikio Naruse (成瀬 巳喜男 Naruse Mikio?) (n. 20 august 1905, Tokyo (d), Tōkyō, Japonia – d. 2 iulie 1969, Tokyo (d), Tōkyō, Japonia) a fost un regizor, scenarist și producător de film japonez care a regizat aproximativ 89 de filme începând din 1930 (de la sfârșitul epocii filmului mut) până în 1967.
“The Cinema of Naruse Mikio presents not only a deft and subtle run-through of the world of an important auteur, but also a virtual encapsulation of the intellectual history of Japanese cinema during its most important period, the 1930s–60s. Catherine Russell contextualizes Naruse in the commercial situation in which he worked and in the historic
