Mieko Takamine
Birthday: 1918-12-02
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: 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
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Five Men of Edo
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...
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Red Bud and White Flower
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry....
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A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thiev...
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The Wanderer
After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the l...
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The Beauty of the Evening Sky
A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was ...
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Gekimetsu no uta
Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day o...
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Homecoming
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her...
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The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...
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Hotaru no hikari
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip ...
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Flower Season
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as th...
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Nobuko
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and ...
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The Inugami Family
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condi...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
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Rebellion Reward
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a phot...
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The Garden of Women
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned do...
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The Flower is not False
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously...
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South Wind
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper s...
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Moon of the Plateau
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (T...
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The Trio's Engagements
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...
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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Elegy of the North
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithf...
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治郎吉格子
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man w...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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Rira no hana wasureji
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with inves...
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Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagoni...
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Castle of Flames
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his ...
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Dancing Girl
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot...
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Aruhi watashi wa
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriag...
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The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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Once More
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto...
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So Goes My Love
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better ...
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Freedom School
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surpri...
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Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
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Queen Bee
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's...
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An Ocean to Cross
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and br...
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South Wind 2
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in ...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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Dreaming People
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that hi...
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The Phoenix
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also ...
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Memories of You
A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She ...
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Appassionata
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter S...
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Here Because of You
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teac...
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Points and Lines
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group...
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Street of Ronin
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject ...
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Bright Sea
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for t...
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The Masseurs and a Woman
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masse...
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The Golden Demon
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playbo...
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Vermilion and Green
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees....
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Song of Farewell
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he l...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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Eyes of Children
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investi...
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The Image of Mother
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a famil...
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Tokyo Omnibus
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman...
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Marriageable Age
The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband...
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Lover's Duet
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the sa...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the fi...
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Warm Current
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the sec...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's weste...
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The Incorrigible
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as To...
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were cal...
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The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu....
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Summer in Eclipse
Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with hi...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Mad Skullwoman
Detective Denshichi is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Kishu family's daug...
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The Road to the Spring
Kyoko is a new writer for the women's magazine "Josei no tomo" female reporter. One day, the magazin...
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A Woman's Fight
Yumiko, the president's daughter, meets a suspicious woman after her wedding ceremony with Tamio....
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Farewell Tango
A heartrending love story between an aspiring singer and a unnamed composer. Sobbing love songs sung...
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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