A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hideko Takamine
Hideko, the Bus Conductor / Hideko no shashô-san (1941) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daijirô Natsukawa
Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi Read More »
Her Lonely Lane / Hôrô-ki (1962) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô
Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working Read More »
Muhomatsu, the Rikshaw Man / Muhomatsu no issho (1958) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa
In the turn of the Twentieth Century, the rickshaw driver Matsugoro “Matsu” Read More »
Happiness of Us Alone AKA Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku (1961) Zenzô Matsuyama, Hideko Takamine, Keiju Kobayashi, Izumi Hara
Tragic story of a deaf-mute(Takamine) who marries another deaf-mute(Kobayashi) she at a school for the deaf. Read More »
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs AKA Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (1960) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Read More »
Immortal Love AKA Eien no hito (1961) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son (Nakadai) Read More »
A Woman’s Life AKA Onna no rekishi (1963) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Nobuko (Hideko Takamine) is a gentle Japanese woman who endures several ordeals during her adult life in this somber, sentimental drama. Read More »
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) Mikio Naruse, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Hideko Takamine
The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house Read More »
The Devils Temple (1969) Kenji Misumi, Shintarô Katsu, Hideko Takamine, Michiyo Aratama, Drama
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Read More »