Personal Info
Birth date
1924-03-27 (101 Years)
Day of death
2010-12-28
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Also known as
Hideko Hirayama
다카미네 히데코
Хидэко Такаминэ
هیدکو تاکامینه
Hideko Takamine
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.
Filmography
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
Overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.4
Overview:
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.Untamed Woman
7.3
Overview:
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.When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7.974
Overview:
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.Floating Clouds
7.691
Overview:
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.A Wanderer's Notebook
7.2
Overview:
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth 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.Twenty-Four Eyes
7.7
Overview:
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.Flowing
7.125
Overview:
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 portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.The Rickshaw Man
7.2
Overview:
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.The Munekata Sisters
7
Overview:
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.A Wife's Heart
6.8
Overview:
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.1
Overview:
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.Immortal Love
7.529
Overview:
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.Yearning
8.1
Overview:
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.Lightning
7.14
Overview:
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.Stakeout
6.9
Overview:
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.The River Fuefuki
7.5
Overview:
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.Oh, My Son!
5.2
Overview:
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.Carmen Comes Home
6.2
Overview:
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.Hideko the Bus Conductress
7
Overview:
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
6.9
Overview:
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 experimentsTokyo Chorus
6.733
Overview:
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.365 Nights
7
Overview:
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.The Monkey King
NYR
Overview:
A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mission to prevent a demonic resurrection. As Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) fight their way to their goal, their path is fraught with internal strife.Horse
5.8
Overview:
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.Carmen's Innocent Love
5.8
Overview:
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.Moment of Terror
6.3
Overview:
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.Those Who Make Tomorrow
NYR
Overview:
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike but finds his views changing when he loses his job.Acting
1979Oh, My Son! as Yukie Kawase
1976Two Iida as Kikue Sugawa
1976Love and Separation in Sri Lanka as Unknown
1973The Twilight Years as Akiko (Nobutoshi's wife)
1969Devil's Temple as Kaede
1967The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka as Otsugi, Umpei's mother
1966Moment of Terror as Kuniko, the Mother
1965Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi as Ine
1964Yearning as Reiko Morita
1963A Woman's Life as Nobuko Shimizu
1962My Hobo as Komako Kuwata
1962A Wanderer's Notebook as Fumiko Hayashi
1962Ballad of a Workman as Torae Nonaka
1962Mother Country as Unknown
1962The Wiser Age as Yoshiko, Ishikawa-ke no yome
1961Immortal Love as Sadako
1961The Other Woman as Miho Nishigaki
1961The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer as Hinanmin no Onna
1961Happiness of Us Alone as Akiko Katayama
1960The River Fuefuki as Okei
1960Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Kazuko Sakanishi, Yuichiro's wife
1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs as Keiko Yashiro
1958The Rickshaw Man as Yoshiko Yoshioka
1958Stakeout as Sadako Yokokawa
1957Danger Stalks Near as Yuriko
1957Times of Joy and Sorrow as Kiyoko Arisawa
1957Untamed Woman as Oshima
1957Flying in the Air as Unknown
1956Flowing as Katsuyo
1956A Wife's Heart as Kiyoko
1956Three Women Around Yoshinaka as Unknown
1956Eyes of Children as Unknown
1955The First Kiss as Akiko Kaneda
1955The Tattered Wings as Fuyuko Terada
1955(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home as Machiko
1955Floating Clouds as Yukiko Koda
1954Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky as Yasuko, Ryoichi's sister
1954Twenty-Four Eyes as Ôishi Sensei
1954The Garden of Women as Yoshie Izushi
1953The Wild Geese as Otoma
1953Where Chimneys Are Seen as Senko Azuma
1952Carmen's Innocent Love as Carmen
1952Lightning as Kiyoko
1952Dimple of Tokyo as Kyoko Mine
1952A Ripple in a Morning as Atsuko Takimoto
1951Sasaki Kojiro as Unknown
1951Zoku Sasaki Kojiro as Unknown
1951Carmen Comes Home as Kin Aoyama aka Lily Carmen
1951Home Sweet Home as Tomoko, Kosaku's daughter
1951The Woman’s Reflective Pool as Naeko Minamoto
1950Senka o koete as Unknown
1950The Munekata Sisters as Mariko Munekata
1950Snow-Flake as Taeko
1949Ginza Cancan Girls as Unknown
1949Flirtation in Spring as Unknown
1948The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow as Akiko Hojo
1948365 Nights as Ranko Komaki
1948The Ed Sullivan Show (1 Episode) as Self
1948A Flower Blooms as Machiko
1947Invitation to Happiness as Unknown
1947The Devil of Edo as Onatsu
1947A Thousand and One Nights with Toho as Unknown
1946Lord for a Night as Unknown
1946Those Who Make Tomorrow as Takamine
1946A Descendant of Urashima Taro as Akako Tatsuta
1946Yoki na onna as Unknown
1945Three Women of the North as Unknown
1945Until Victory Day as Unknown
1944Four Marriages as Unknown
1944Sagohei the Three-footer as Otae
1943World of Love as Yamaneko
1943Hyoroku's Dream Tale as Kaido-jo
1943Miss Hanako as Chiyoko, Goro's sister
1943The Opium War as Unknown
1942Onna keizu as Taeko
1942The Man Who Waited as Unknown
1942Sky of Hope as Hideko
1942Musashibo Benkei as Unknown
1941Hideko the Bus Conductress as Okoma, the bus conductress
1941Schoolgirl Records as Sachiko Kamata
1941Dancers of Awa as Unknown
1941Horse as Ine Onoda
1941The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday as Unknown
1940The Monkey King as Princess
1940Bellflower as Yumiko
1940A Gentle Breeze With Father as Unknown
1940Hideko the Cheerleader as Hideko Takashima
1939Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki as Oharu
1939Flower Picking Diary as Unknown
1939The Day Before as Otsu
1939Ichiyo Higuchi as Unknown
1939Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei as Unknown
1939My Daughter's Only Wish as Unknown
1939Beautiful Departure as Unknown
1938Chocolate and Soldiers as Shigeko
1938Composition Class as Masako
1938Tojuro's Love as Unknown
1938Rainbow Hill as Yuri
1937The Kingdom of Spectacles as Unknown
1937A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again as Unknown
1937A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again as Unknown
1937A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes as Unknown
1937Song of the Flower Basket as Hamako
1936The New Road: Ryota as Unknown
1936The New Road: Akemi as Unknown
1936Men vs. Women as Little girl in theater
1933The Layabout and Seabathing as Unknown
1932Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter as Momoyo
1932Passion as Mitsuko's child
1931Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter as Momoyo Sone
1931Tokyo Chorus as Sono Choujo
1930Reijin as Iwao
1929Mother as Haruko
Writing
1994The Unconcealed Woman ... Writer, Original Story
Costume & Make-Up
1962Mother Country ... Costume Supervisor
1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs ... Costume Design