Mieko Takamine
Mieko Takamine (高峰三枝子, Takamine Mieko) (2 December 1918 – 27 May 1990) was a Japanese actress and singer. Mieko Takamine was born the eldest daughter of famous chikuzen biwa player and teacher Chikufu Takamine. She gave her acting debut in the 1936 film Kimi yo takarakani utae, produced by the Shochiku studios, to which she would remain affiliated throughout her career, although she would also occasionally appear in productions of other companies after the war. Her first released record as a singer was the theme song for the film Hotaru no hikari (1938), and she soon established herself as a "singing movie star". Takamine starred in films of Japan's most notable directors, including Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita. In 1976, Takamine won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 19th Blue Ribbon Awards for her role in The Inugamis (1976). In 1985, she was awarded the Medal of Purple Ribbon and a special Mainichi Film Award for her longtime achievements as a performer
The 47 Ronin
as OminoIn 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the...
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The Phoenix
as Queen Himiko of YamataiThis extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is...
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The Inugami Family
as Matsuko InugamiWhen a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the...
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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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The Masseurs and a Woman
as Michiho MisawaA pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The...
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Wife
as Mihoko NakagawaTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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An Ocean to Cross
as YoroshimeSet in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism...
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Queen Bee
as Takako HigashikojiTo solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji...
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Points and Lines
as RyokoBased on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Haruko SaitoBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
as uncreditedThe university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...
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The Garden of Women
as Mayumi GojoA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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Nobuko
as uncreditedA spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking...
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The Flower is not False
as uncreditedHana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had...
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Moon of the Plateau
as uncreditedAn older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their...
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The Trio's Engagements
as Reiko KageyamaThree men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted...
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Love Under the Crucifix
as RikiThe basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both...
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The Lights of Asakusa
as Reiko KosugiPre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking...
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Appassionata
as uncreditedThis story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of...
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Warm Current
as Keiko ShimaAdaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a...
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
as uncreditedPart one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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Once More
as AkikoA romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a...
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The Incorrigible
as uncreditedBased on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars...
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Aruhi watashi wa
as uncreditedThe four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
as Yoshie KonoAn Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as...
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
as uncreditedPart two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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Elegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
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Bright Sea
as Yukiko IshidaOn the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian...
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Five Men of Edo
as OkinuDuring the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of...
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Rira no hana wasureji
as uncreditedIn the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with...
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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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Ejima and Ikushima
as 月光院This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
as uncreditedAn Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the...
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Tokyo Omnibus
as uncreditedThe story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...
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Dancing Girl
as NamikoThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved...
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Freedom School
as uncreditedMinamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...
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The Wanderer
as uncreditedAfter killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and...
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Lover's Duet
as uncreditedA melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of...
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Hotaru no hikari
as uncreditedApproaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight...
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Elegy of the North
as Akiko KatsuragiA sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his...
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The Image of Mother
as OhamaA resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a...
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Vermilion and Green
as uncreditedA businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
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Omatsuri hanjiro
as uncreditedEvery year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a...
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Castle of Flames
as uncreditedIn 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed:...
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Red Bud and White Flower
as uncreditedA high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
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Memories of You
as uncreditedUniversity student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her...
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Dreaming People
as uncreditedShinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns...
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
as uncreditedA Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
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The Golden Demon
as Toshiko MinowaA penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy...
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Victory Song
as NobueHisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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Theater
as uncreditedKotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
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Marriageable Age
as uncreditedYoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and...
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Rebellion Reward
as YoshieThe film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a...
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Street of Ronin
as uncreditedBased on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in...
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Let Us Love
as uncreditedMelodrama based on a hit song of the same title.
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Dance of the Capital
as uncreditedHiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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治郎吉格子
as お仙Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A...
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So Goes My Love
as Toshiko, Shigeo's sisiterShigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a...
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Lovers' Duet
as Eiko TakayamaMelodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
as uncreditedIn the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were...
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Homecoming
as 守屋節子Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that...
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The Beauty of the Evening Sky
as uncreditedA platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he...
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South Wind 2
as uncreditedIn this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is...
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A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
as uncreditedA film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
as uncreditedIkeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's...
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Fantasy of Youth
as uncreditedAdaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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Flower Season
as uncreditedKitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that,...
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Pomegranate Time
as Nobuko SakamotoComedy-drama about university tennis players.
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Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
as uncreditedA hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the...
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Here Because of You
as uncreditedAn uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted...
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Gekimetsu no uta
as 桜井千鶴Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the...
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Song of Farewell
as Haruko NomuraAfter her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as...
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South Wind
as uncreditedAmusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the...
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Ningen no Shōmei
as uncreditedTV series produced by MBS and TOEI, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Seiichi...
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