Acting

Hideko Takamine

Born March 27, 1924 · Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

Died December 28, 2010 · aged 86

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 …

Known For

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer · 1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs · 1960

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 describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

Yearning

Yearning · 1964

MovieDramaRomance

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

The Rickshaw Man

The Rickshaw Man · 1958

The Rickshaw Man

MovieDramaComedy

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes · 1954

Twenty-Four Eyes

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.

Ballad of a Workman

Ballad of a Workman · 1962

Ballad of a Workman

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.

Schoolgirl Records

Schoolgirl Records · 1941

Schoolgirl Records

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds · 1955

Floating Clouds

MovieDramaRomance

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer · 1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.

Hinanmin no Onna

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs · 1960

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 describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

Costume Design

Yearning

Yearning · 1964

MovieDramaRomance

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

Reiko Morita

The Rickshaw Man

The Rickshaw Man · 1958

The Rickshaw Man

MovieDramaComedy

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Yoshiko Yoshioka

Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes · 1954

Twenty-Four Eyes

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.

Ôishi Sensei

Ballad of a Workman

Ballad of a Workman · 1962

Ballad of a Workman

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.

Torae Nonaka

Schoolgirl Records

Schoolgirl Records · 1941

Schoolgirl Records

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

Sachiko Kamata

Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds · 1955

Floating Clouds

MovieDramaRomance

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

Yukiko Koda

Untamed Woman

Untamed Woman · 1957

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Oshima

Stakeout

Stakeout · 1958

MovieCrimeDrama

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Sadako Yokokawa

Flirtation in Spring

Flirtation in Spring · 1949

Flirtation in Spring

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

The New Road: Ryota

The New Road: Ryota · 1936

The New Road: Ryota

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant...

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Daughters, Wives and a Mother · 1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

Kazuko Sakanishi, Yuichiro's wife

The Munekata Sisters

The Munekata Sisters · 1950

The Munekata Sisters

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although she too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

Mariko Munekata

Lightning

Lightning · 1952

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

Kiyoko

A Wanderer's Notebook

A Wanderer's Notebook · 1962

A Wanderer's Notebook

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

Fumiko Hayashi

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1 · 1931

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 alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.

Yasuo (Son)

Immortal Love

Immortal Love · 1961

MovieDramaRomance

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.

Sadako

Moment of Terror

Moment of Terror · 1966

Moment of Terror

MovieCrimeDrama

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.

Kuniko, the Mother

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home · 1951

Home Sweet Home

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...

Tomoko, Kosaku's daughter

The First Kiss

The First Kiss · 1955

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Akiko Kaneda

Flowing

Flowing · 1956

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portrays the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Katsuyo

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka · 1967

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Otsugi, Umpei's mother

The Wiser Age

The Wiser Age · 1962

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Yoshiko, Ishikawa-ke no yome