Hideko Takamine
Hideko Takamine (高峰 秀子, Takamine Hideko, March 27, 1924 – December 28, 2010) was a Japanese actress who began as a child actress and maintained her fame in a career that spanned 50 years. She is particularly known for her collaborations with directors Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita, with Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) and Floating Clouds (1955) being among her most noted films. Takamine was born in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, in 1924. At the age of four, following the death of her mother, she was placed in the care of her aunt in Tokyo. Her first role was in the Shochiku studio's 1929 film Mother (Haha), which brought her tremendous popularity as a child actor. She toured as a singer to entertain Japanese troops and, after the war, sang for American occupation troops in Tokyo. In 1950, she left Shintoho and became a freelance actress. She was especially favoured as leading actress by Naruse, appearing in 17 of his films between 1941 and 1966, which are considered "some of her finest performances." She married writer-director Zenzo Matsuyama in 1955, but continued her acting career, stating that she wanted to "create a new style of wife who has a job". After retiring as an actress in 1979, she published her autobiography and several essay collections. She died of lung cancer on 28 December 2010 at the age of 86.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Keiko YashiroKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Hinanmin no OnnaAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
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Carmen Comes Home
as Kin Aoyama aka Lily CarmenA rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...
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Floating Clouds
as Yukiko KodaA married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...
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The Rickshaw Man
as Yoshiko YoshiokaA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as Ôishi SenseiIn 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of...
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Yearning
as Reiko MoritaWar widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as Fumiko HayashiConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Oh, My Son!
as Yukie KawaseA man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Senko AzumaGosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the...
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Immortal Love
as SadakoThe year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the...
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Flying in the Air
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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Flowing
as KatsuyoOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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The Other Woman
as Miho NishigakiIn "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have...
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Stakeout
as Sadako YokokawaTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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The River Fuefuki
as OkeiIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very...
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Ballad of a Workman
as Torae NonakaA demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to...
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Home Sweet Home
as Tomoko, Kosaku's daughterThe Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded...
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Horse
as Ine OnodaIne Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Sakanishi Kazuko, Shingo's wifeSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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The Munekata Sisters
as Mariko MunekataSetsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
as TakamineTwo sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become...
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The Twilight Years
as Akiko (Nobutoshi's wife)A woman looks after her father in law.
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Sasaki Kojiro
as uncreditedDirector Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro....
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Happiness of Us Alone
as Akiko KatayamaThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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Tokyo Chorus
as Sono ChoujoIn Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from...
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A Ripple in a Morning
as Atsuko TakimotoAtsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in...
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The Wild Geese
as OtomaA young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself...
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Lightning
as KiyokoThe story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her...
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Men vs. Women
as Little girl in theaterA musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of...
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Hideko the Bus Conductor
as Okoma, the bus conductressOkoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
as uncreditedThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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A Wife's Heart
as KiyokoKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...
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The Tattered Wings
as Fuyuko TeradaA young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor...
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World of Love
as YamanekoA sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in...
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A Woman's Life
as Nobuko ShimizuA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Carmen's Innocent Love
as CarmenStrip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing...
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Untamed Woman
as OshimaA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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Invitation to Happiness
as uncreditedKôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
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Flirtation in Spring
as uncreditedJapanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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Lord for a Night
as uncreditedLord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Miss Hanako
as Chiyoko, Goro's sisterHanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy,...
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The New Road: Akemi
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...
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Danger Stalks Near
as YurikoThe plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house...
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Dimple of Tokyo
as Kyoko MineBuntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life....
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Four Marriages
as uncreditedBased on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
as Akiko HojoAkiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro...
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Tojuro's Love
as uncreditedA colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the...
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Mother Country
as uncreditedIn 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife...
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Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
as OharuAnother adaptation of Tange Sazen.
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as MachikoYoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is...
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The Wiser Age
as Yoshiko, Ishikawa-ke no yomeDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Moment of Terror
as Kuniko, the MotherWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
as Naeko MinamotoTozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's...
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Song of the Flower Basket
as HamakoThree men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the...
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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
as MomoyoPart two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the...
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Devil's Temple
as KaedeAn abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a...
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Musashibo Benkei
as uncreditedA 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior...
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The New Road: Ryota
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...
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Three Women of the North
as uncreditedThe story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town....
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Chocolate and Soldiers
as ShigekoChocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by...
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Rainbow Hill
as YuriA half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop...
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A Gentle Breeze With Father
as uncredited9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
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Schoolgirl Records
as Sachiko KamataA "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
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Sky of Hope
as HidekoWhat is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited...
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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
as Momoyo SoneThe film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Yasuko, Ryoichi's sisterThis drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...
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The Day Before
as OtsuA forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the...
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Passion
as Mitsuko's childFilm by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko...
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Composition Class
as MasakoBased on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
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Hideko the Cheerleader
as Hideko TakashimaHideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as Otsugi, Umpei's motherThe disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic,...
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Flower Picking Diary
as uncreditedBased on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different...
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A Flower Blooms
as MachikoMachiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
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The Man Who Waited
as uncreditedA bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa)...
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A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
as uncreditedKayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's...
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka
as uncreditedThe story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike...
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Eyes of Children
as uncreditedA man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An...
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The Garden of Women
as Yoshie IzushiA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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Dancers of Awa
as uncreditedJurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the...
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The Monkey King
as PrincessA legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan....
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The Layabout and Seabathing
as uncreditedThe seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono)....
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Two Iida
as Kikue SugawaBased on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The...
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365 Nights
as Ranko KomakiA young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in...
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A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
as uncreditedThe debut film of Shin Toho Productions
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Beautiful Departure
as uncreditedA rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as IneYoung widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha,...
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
as uncreditedA Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past....
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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