Hideko Takamine
Birthday: 1924-03-27
Place of Birth: Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Biography: 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.
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...
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The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine...
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The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had al...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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Carmen Comes Home
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware tha...
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Immortal Love
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. T...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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Tokyo Chorus
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his ...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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The Wild Geese
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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Devil's Temple
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fate...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c...
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Tojuro's Love
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku...
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The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal...
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Until Victory Day
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket ...
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Carmen's Innocent Love
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi...
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Danger Stalks Near
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house the...
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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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Oh, My Son!
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....
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The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, ...
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My Daughter's Only Wish
My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much c...
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The Other Woman
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
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Hideko the Bus Conductress
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
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Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a...
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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich,...
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Two Iida
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair a...
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Miss Hanako
Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by...
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The Monkey King
A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The S...
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Home Sweet Home
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded priz...
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The New Road: Akemi
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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Horse
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to lo...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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Lightning
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunction...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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Flying in the Air
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....
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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office ...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is tak...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka'...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashi...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
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Ginza Cancan Girls
Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend...
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A Flower Blooms
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her....
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My Hobo
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the N...
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Dimple of Tokyo
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The ne...
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Composition Class
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contes...
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Bellflower
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based ...
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365 Nights
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love wi...
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Ballad of a Workman
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work...
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Flirtation in Spring
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan....
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Lord for a Night
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...
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The Man Who Waited
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacatio...
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari...
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Three Women of the North
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr...
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Song of the Flower Basket
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr...
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Mother
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star....
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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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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They b...
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The Day Before
A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average ...
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Schoolgirl Records
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan....
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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Mother Country
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...
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Four Marriages
Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls i...
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Dancers of Awa
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance ...
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The Opium War
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in ...
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The Layabout and Seabathing
The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer ca...
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Passion
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Tak...
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Chocolate and Soldiers
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato...
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The New Road: Ryota
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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World of Love
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble...
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Hideko the Cheerleader
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new ...
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The Kingdom of Spectacles
Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pi...
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Musashibo Benkei
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musas...
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Rainbow Hill
A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop cle...
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Sky of Hope
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited marr...
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Flower Picking Diary
Based on "Heaven and Maiko", a short story from the book "Chiisaki Hanabana" by Yoshiya Nobuko, it i...
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Beautiful Departure
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the ...
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A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, ...
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A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, ...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Mother of the East
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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