Hideko Takamine Movies

  • 1937
    The Kingdom of Spectacles

    The Kingdom of Spectacles

    The Kingdom of Spectacles

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    Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...

    The Kingdom of Spectacles
  • 1962
    Ballad of a Workman

    Ballad of a Workman

    Ballad of a Workman

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    A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

    Ballad of a Workman
  • 1932
    Passion

    Passion

    Passion

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    Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

    Passion
  • 1937
    Song of the Flower Basket

    Song of the Flower Basket

    Song of the Flower Basket

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    Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

    Song of the Flower Basket
  • 1962
    My Hobo

    My Hobo

    My Hobo

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    Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

    My Hobo
  • 1961
    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

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    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...

    The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
  • 1931
    Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

    Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

    Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

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    The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

    Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
  • 1979
    Oh, My Son!

    Oh, My Son!

    Oh, My Son!

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    A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

    Oh, My Son!
  • 1940
    Bellflower

    Bellflower

    Bellflower

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    Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

    Bellflower
  • 1938
    Rainbow Hill

    Rainbow Hill

    Rainbow Hill

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    A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...

    Rainbow Hill
  • 1956
    Three Women Around Yoshinaka

    Three Women Around Yoshinaka

    Three Women Around Yoshinaka

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    The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

    Three Women Around Yoshinaka
  • 1942
    Sky of Hope

    Sky of Hope

    Sky of Hope

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    What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

    Sky of Hope
  • 1964
    Yearning

    Yearning

    Yearning

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    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...

    Yearning
  • 1951
    Carmen Comes Home

    Carmen Comes Home

    Carmen Comes Home

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    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.

    Carmen Comes Home
  • 1932
    Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

    Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

    Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

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    Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

    Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
  • 1943
    Miss Hanako

    Miss Hanako

    Miss Hanako

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    Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

    Miss Hanako
  • 1936
    The New Road: Akemi

    The New Road: Akemi

    The New Road: Akemi

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    The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

    The New Road: Akemi
  • 1941
    Dancers of Awa

    Dancers of Awa

    Dancers of Awa

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    Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

    Dancers of Awa
  • 1954
    Twenty-Four Eyes

    Twenty-Four Eyes

    Twenty-Four Eyes

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    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...

    Twenty-Four Eyes
  • 1931
    Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

    Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

    Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

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    The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

    Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1