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.

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.

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.

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.

The River Fuefuki

The River Fuefuki · 1960

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

Sky of Hope

Sky of Hope · 1942

MovieComedyDrama

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.

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.

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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

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

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

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

The River Fuefuki

The River Fuefuki · 1960

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

Okei

Sky of Hope

Sky of Hope · 1942

MovieComedyDrama

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.

Hideko

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

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

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka · 1976

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

MovieDramaRomance

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.

A Woman's Life

A Woman's Life · 1963

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Nobuko Shimizu

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Where Chimneys Are Seen · 1953

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.

Senko Azuma

Tojuro's Love

Tojuro's Love · 1938

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels the limits to his acting when he sees his rival troupe put on a new type of play featuring its star, Nakamura. He has the famous Chikamatsu write a new play but cannot get used to the character he is to play in it.

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

Carmen Comes Home

Carmen Comes Home · 1951

Carmen Comes Home

MovieComedyMusic

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Kin Aoyama aka Lily Carmen

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

The Garden of Women

The Garden of Women · 1954

The Garden of Women

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Yoshie Izushi

Carmen's Innocent Love

Carmen's Innocent Love · 1952

Carmen's Innocent Love

MovieComedyDrama

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Carmen

A Ripple in a Morning

A Ripple in a Morning · 1952

A Ripple in a Morning

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Atsuko Takimoto

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

Those Who Make Tomorrow

Those Who Make Tomorrow · 1946

Those Who Make Tomorrow

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them strike for better conditions. As their conservative father opposes their activism, his own dismissal forces him to confront the realities of class struggle and join their fight for a fairer future. Now considered a lost film, Those Who Make Tomorrow was produced by Toho to promote unionization during Japan’s Allied Occupation.

Takamine

Devil's Temple

Devil's Temple · 1969

MovieDramaFantasy

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?

Kaede

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