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Hideko Takamine
Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
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 5…
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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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1994
The Unconcealed Woman
Movie Writer
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1979
Oh, My Son!
Movie Yukie Kawase
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1976
Two Iida
Movie Kikue Sugawa
- 1976
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1973
The Twilight Years
Movie Akiko (Nobutoshi's wife)
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1969
Devil's Temple
Movie Kaede
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1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie Otsugi, Umpei's mother
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1967
Our Silent Love
Movie
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1966
Moment of Terror
Movie Kuniko, the Mother
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1965
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Movie Ine
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1964
Could I But Live
Movie Noriko Nemoto
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1964
Yearning
Movie Reiko Morita
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1963
A Woman's Life
Movie Nobuko Shimizu
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1962
My Hobo
Movie Komako Kuwata
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1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
Movie Fumiko Hayashi
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1962
Ballad of a Workman
Movie Torae Nonaka
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1962
Mother Country
Movie
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1962
The Wiser Age
Movie Yoshiko, Ishikawa-ke no yome
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1961
Immortal Love
Movie Sadako
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1961
The Other Woman
Movie Miho Nishigaki
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1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Movie Hinanmin no Onna
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1961
Happiness of Us Alone
Movie Akiko Katayama
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1960
The River Fuefuki
Movie Okei
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1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Movie Kazuko Sakanishi, Yuichiro's wife
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1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Movie Keiko Yashiro
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1958
The Rickshaw Man
Movie Yoshiko Yoshioka
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1958
Stakeout
Movie Sadako Yokokawa
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1957
Danger Stalks Near
Movie Yuriko
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1957
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Movie Kiyoko Arisawa
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1957
Untamed Woman
Movie Oshima
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1957
Flying in the Air
Movie
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1956
Flowing
Movie Katsuyo
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1956
A Wife's Heart
Movie Kiyoko
- 1956
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1956
Eyes of Children
Movie
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1955
The First Kiss
Movie Akiko Kaneda
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1955
The Tattered Wings
Movie Fuyuko Terada
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1955
House of Many Pleasures
Movie Machiko
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1955
Floating Clouds
Movie Yukiko Koda
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1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Movie Yasuko, Ryoichi's sister
