Kurosawa Called Mikio Naruse A Great River – Naruse’s Mini Retrospective -2014
Prologue
Yoshiko Yamaguchi and Mifune Toshiro from Scandal directed by Akira Kurosawa. (A very funny photo – the dude on the right looks like Henry Miller )
“like a great river with a calm surface and a raging current in its depths”, Akira Kurosawa on the works of Mikio Naruse – (thanks to Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen)
Mifune and Takamine Hideko in A Wife’s Heart
Takamine Hideko in Naruse masterpiece..
(Wong Kar Wai was thinking of Naruse when he made In the Mood for Love.)
Gesture and pose of cinema of M.Naruse
Harvard Archive list of Naruse films
Summer Clouds, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Floating Clouds (3 film stills)
See more full films on youtube
The Actress and the Poet / 女優と詩人 (1935)
Mikio Naruse was born on Aug 20, 1905..