Hideko Takamine

Acting March 27, 1924 (86 years old) December 28, 2010 Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

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.

Hideko Takamine

Biography

Movies 126

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Twenty-Four Eyes

Yearning

Floating Clouds

Stakeout

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

The River Fuefuki

Good-Bye!

The Munekata Sisters

Lightning

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Oh, My Son!

Carmen Comes Home

Carmen's Innocent Love

Happiness of Us Alone

A Wanderer's Notebook

The Rickshaw Man

Untamed Woman

Flowing

Tokyo Chorus

Immortal Love

Moment of Terror

A Wife's Heart

Lord for a Night

Times of Joy and Sorrow

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

Those Who Make Tomorrow

Eyes of Children

Devil's Temple

Song of the Flower Basket

Bellflower

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The First Kiss

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Four Marriages

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

365 Nights

The Garden of Women

Sasaki Kojiro

Dancers of Awa

Reijin

Ballad of a Workman

Dimple of Tokyo

A Woman's Life

The Wiser Age

Hideko the Bus Conductor

Onna to iu shiro: Yuko no maki

Home Sweet Home

The Wild Geese

Tojuro's Love

The Second Kiss

Flirtation in Spring

My Hobo

House of Many Pleasures

Three Women of the North

Shirobara wa sakedo

365 Nights: Tokyo

The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow

Could I But Live

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

Three Women Around Yoshinaka

Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei

World of Love

The Monkey King

The Other Woman

The Tattered Wings

Composition Class

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

Horse

Snow-Flake

The Kingdom of Spectacles

Schoolgirl Records

The Twilight Years

A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again

The Man Who Waited

Young Lady

Mother Country