Hideko Takamine
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.
122 acting credits
Acting · 122
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
Floating Clouds
1955
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
Untamed Woman
1957
Oh, My Son!
1979
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1960
Yearning
1964
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
Those Who Make Tomorrow
1946
Immortal Love
1961
A Wife's Heart
1956
Stakeout
1958
Happiness of Us Alone
1961
Flowing
1956
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
1931
Moment of Terror
1966
The Munekata Sisters
1950
The Rickshaw Man
1958
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
1931
The Wiser Age
1962
A Woman's Life
1963
The Tattered Wings
1955
Horse
1941
Lightning
1952
Carmen Comes Home
1951
Three Women of the North
1945
Dimple of Tokyo
1952
Times of Joy and Sorrow
1957
The Monkey King
1940
The Other Woman
1961
The River Fuefuki
1960
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967
World of Love
1943
Hyoroku's Dream Tale
1943
The First Kiss
1955
Two Iida
1976
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1946
The Opium War
1943
House of Many Pleasures
1955
Devil's Temple
1969
Sky of Hope
1942
The Man Who Waited
1942
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953
Hideko the Bus Conductor
1941
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954
The Wild Geese
1953
Carmen's Innocent Love
1952
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
1947
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1956
Rainbow Hill
1938
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937
Dancers of Awa
1941
Beautiful Departure
1939
Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
1932
The Twilight Years
1973
Onna keizu
1942
Tojuro's Love
1938
Ichiyo Higuchi
1939
Snow-Flake
1950
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
1939
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
1948
Ginza Cancan Girls
1949
Senka o koete
1950
365 Nights
1948
Flower Picking Diary
1939
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
1976
Men vs. Women
1936
The New Road: Akemi
1936
Tokyo Chorus
1931
Eyes of Children
1956
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1937
Until Victory Day
1945
Sagohei the Three-footer
1944
Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
1931
My Daughter's Only Wish
1939
Chocolate and Soldiers
1938
Mother Country
1962
Lord for a Night
1946
Passion
1932
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
1951
My Hobo
1962
The Layabout and Seabathing
1933
Bellflower
1940
Invitation to Happiness
1947
The Devil of Edo
1947
Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei
1939
Reijin
1930
Miss Hanako
1943
A Flower Blooms
1948
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
1941
Musashibo Benkei
1942
Flying in the Air
1957
The Garden of Women
1954
Composition Class
1938
Four Marriages
1944
Danger Stalks Near
1957
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1951
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937
The Day Before
1939
Sasaki Kojiro
1951
A Gentle Breeze With Father
1940
Home Sweet Home
1951
The New Road: Ryota
1936
Mother
1929
Schoolgirl Records
1941
Hideko the Cheerleader
1940
Yoki na onna
1946
Flirtation in Spring
1949
Ballad of a Workman
1962
Song of the Flower Basket
1937
Goodbye
1949
The Kingdom of Spectacles
1937
365 Nights: Tokyo
1948
Young Lady
1937
Sisters: Part 1
1931
Shirobara wa sakedo
1937
Mother of the East
1934
Sisters: Part 2
1931