# Mikio Naruse's best films

With Floating Clouds at the top, from the Fumiko Hayashi adaptations to his last film, Scattered Clouds: Naruse's finest films from the Cinema Rank ranking and fans' top tens.

- 6 votes · 14 items
- Oct 18, 2023 · 橋本 大輔
- https://even.best/en/l/3306/mikio-naruse-s-best-films

## Top 14

1. **Floating Clouds (1955)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori, from Fumiko Hayashi.
2. **Sound of the Mountain (1954)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From Yasunari Kawabata, with Setsuko Hara and So Yamamura.
3. **When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hideko Takamine as a Ginza bar hostess.
4. **Scattered Clouds (1967)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Yoko Tsukasa and Yuzo Kayama; his last film.
5. **Mother (1952)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Kinuyo Tanaka as a mother in the postwar years.
6. **Yearning (1964)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hideko Takamine and Yuzo Kayama, a widow and her brother-in-law.
7. **Flowing (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Aya Koda; Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada and Hideko Takamine in a geisha house.
8. **Repast (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Setsuko Hara and Ken Uehara as a married couple; from Fumiko Hayashi.
9. **Late Chrysanthemums (1954)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Haruko Sugimura as a former geisha; from Fumiko Hayashi.
10. **Lightning (1952)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hideko Takamine in a family of half-siblings; from Fumiko Hayashi.
11. **A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hideko Takamine plays Fumiko Hayashi herself.
12. **The Other Woman (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hideko Takamine and Chikage Awashima as mistress and wife.
13. **Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A talkie that topped Kinema Junpo's best ten.
14. **Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kazuo Hasegawa and Isuzu Yamada as a pair of performers.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.