Keeping Up with Naruse

A great many previously unavailable films by the great Japanese director Mikio Naruse are being subtitled in English by dedicated fans. I continue to post reviews of all the Naruse films I see at the Google group NaruseRetro; here's a list of Naruse films that I've reviewed recently.

• Five Men in a Circus (1935)
• The Actress and the Poet (1935)
• The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
• Tochuken Kumoemon (1936)
• The Road I Travel With You (1936)
• A Woman's Sorrows (1937)
• Learn from Experience, Parts I and II (1937)
• Avalanche (1937)
• Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)
• The Way of Drama (1944)
• Spring's Awakening (1947)
• The Angry Street (1950)
• Dancing Girl (1951)
• Okuni and Gohei (1952)
• The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
• Hit and Run (1966)