Mikio Naruse's best films
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: Floating Clouds (1955) · Sound of the Mountain (1954) · When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960). (Updated Oct 18, 2023.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in 日本語). See the original
Top 14
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1
Floating Clouds (1955)
Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori, from Fumiko Hayashi.
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2
Sound of the Mountain (1954)
From Yasunari Kawabata, with Setsuko Hara and So Yamamura.
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3
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Hideko Takamine as a Ginza bar hostess.
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4
Scattered Clouds (1967)
Yoko Tsukasa and Yuzo Kayama; his last film.
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5
Mother (1952)
Kinuyo Tanaka as a mother in the postwar years.
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6
Yearning (1964)
Hideko Takamine and Yuzo Kayama, a widow and her brother-in-law.
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7
Flowing (1956)
From Aya Koda; Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada and Hideko Takamine in a geisha house.
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8
Repast (1951)
Setsuko Hara and Ken Uehara as a married couple; from Fumiko Hayashi.
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9
Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
Haruko Sugimura as a former geisha; from Fumiko Hayashi.
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10
Lightning (1952)
Hideko Takamine in a family of half-siblings; from Fumiko Hayashi.
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11
A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
Hideko Takamine plays Fumiko Hayashi herself.
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12
The Other Woman (1961)
Hideko Takamine and Chikage Awashima as mistress and wife.
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13
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
A talkie that topped Kinema Junpo's best ten.
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14
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
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.
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