A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hideko Takamine
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki / Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura
Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. Read More »
Munekata kyôdai / The Munekata Sisters (1950) Yasujirô Ozu, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. Read More »
Inazuma / Lightning (1952) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura, Kyôko Kagawa
Mikio Naruse’s second adaptation of a novel by Fumiko Hayashi stars Hideko Takamine, the director’s frequent muse Read More »
Carmen Comes Home (1951) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine
With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away Read More »
Ballad of a Worker (1962) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »
A Woman’s Place / Onna no Za (1962) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Yôko Tsukasa, Yuriko Hoshi
The widow of the eldest son of a large family is financially dependent on her husband’s relatives. Read More »
A Wife’s Heart / Tsuma no kokoro (1956) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. Read More »
Flowing / Nagareru (1956) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Read More »
Floating Clouds / Ukigumo (1955) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely women Read More »