Hideko Takamine
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1489 |
| Birthday | 1924-03-27 |
| Place of Birth | Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Also Known As | Hideko Hirayama, 다카미네 히데코, Хидэко Такаминэ, هیدکو تاکامینه, |
1951
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
7/1
1951 Japanese movie
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Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7.968/126
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 ar...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1958
Stakeout
7.026/19
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.
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Stakeout
1954
Twenty-Four Eyes
7.696/92
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 p...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
1958
The Rickshaw Man
7.179/39
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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The Rickshaw Man
1947
The Devil of Edo
8/1
Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
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The Devil of Edo
1956
Flowing
7.176/34
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...
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Flowing
1965
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
7/1
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-establ...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1950
The Munekata Sisters
7.097/36
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose wh...
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The Munekata Sisters
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.3/10
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-law...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1955
Floating Clouds
7.701/107
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 do...
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Floating Clouds
1951
Carmen Comes Home
6.25/26
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.
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Carmen Comes Home
1961
Immortal Love
7.4/20
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through thre...
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Immortal Love
1962
The Wiser Age
7.25/8
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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The Wiser Age
1957
Untamed Woman
7.455/11
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...
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Untamed Woman
1964
Yearning
8.12/71
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 bui...
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Yearning
1931
Tokyo Chorus
6.772/46
During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.
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Tokyo Chorus
1939
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
8/1
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
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Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
6.545/11
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 t...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1963
A Woman's Life
7.071/14
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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A Woman's Life
1953
The Wild Geese
6.667/12
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
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The Wild Geese
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
7.167/12
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her a...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
6.571/7
A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1969
Devil's Temple
6.778/9
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, a...
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Devil's Temple
1938
Tojuro's Love
7/1
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels th...
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Tojuro's Love
1955
The Tattered Wings
6.2/10
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense chi...
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The Tattered Wings
1945
Until Victory Day
8/1
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to e...
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Until Victory Day
1952
Carmen's Innocent Love
5.25/14
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
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Carmen's Innocent Love
1957
Danger Stalks Near
5.5/10
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
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Danger Stalks Near
1954
The Garden of Women
6.636/11
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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The Garden of Women
1979
Oh, My Son!
6.125/8
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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Oh, My Son!
1960
The River Fuefuki
7.654/13
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...
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The River Fuefuki
1937
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
10/1
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply...
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A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1939
My Daughter's Only Wish
7/1
My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest pro...
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My Daughter's Only Wish
1961
The Other Woman
6.333/9
The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family fre...
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The Other Woman
1957
Times of Joy and Sorrow
9/2
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
1941
Hideko the Bus Conductor
7.333/9
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 dw...
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Hideko the Bus Conductor
1940
A Gentle Breeze With Father
9/1
9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
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A Gentle Breeze With Father
1966
Moment of Terror
5.923/13
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victi...
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Moment of Terror
1931
Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
7.5/2
The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...
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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
1932
Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
8/2
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 S...
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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
1947
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
8/1
The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
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A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
1976
Two Iida
7/1
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in the...
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Two Iida
1943
Miss Hanako
9/1
Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy...
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Miss Hanako
1940
The Monkey King
7/1
A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mi...
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The Monkey King
1951
Home Sweet Home
6.8/5
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...
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Home Sweet Home
1936
The New Road: Akemi
8.5/2
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 told...
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The New Road: Akemi
1941
Horse
6.333/6
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...
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Horse
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
6.607/14
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
1952
Lightning
7.268/28
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 marria...
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Lightning
1951
Sasaki Kojiro
6/4
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...
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Sasaki Kojiro
1936
Men vs. Women
7/1
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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Men vs. Women
1956
A Wife's Heart
6.917/12
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jeal...
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A Wife's Heart
1957
Flying in the Air
10/1
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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Flying in the Air
1951
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
0/0
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in cha...
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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
1955
House of Many Pleasures
9/1
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the...
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House of Many Pleasures
1948
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
0/0
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers fr...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
7.5/2
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes popu...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1961
Happiness of Us Alone
9/6
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
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Happiness of Us Alone
1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.403/207
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great od...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1949
Ginza Cancan Girls
10/1
Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips i...
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Ginza Cancan Girls
1948
A Flower Blooms
10/1
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
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A Flower Blooms
1962
My Hobo
9/1
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 beco...
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My Hobo
1952
Dimple of Tokyo
10/1
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (t...
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Dimple of Tokyo
1938
Composition Class
6.778/9
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much p...
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Composition Class
1940
Bellflower
10/1
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poo...
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Bellflower
1948
365 Nights
8.5/2
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 d...
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365 Nights
1939
Ichiyo Higuchi
8/1
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
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Ichiyo Higuchi
1955
The First Kiss
6.4/5
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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The First Kiss
1962
Ballad of a Workman
6.143/7
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 to...
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Ballad of a Workman
1949
Flirtation in Spring
10/1
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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Flirtation in Spring
1946
Lord for a Night
8/2
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a loca...
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Lord for a Night
1942
Onna keizu
8/1
1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
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Onna keizu
1942
The Man Who Waited
8/1
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snoop...
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The Man Who Waited
1956
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
7.667/3
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of He...
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1945
Three Women of the North
10/1
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
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Three Women of the North
1973
The Twilight Years
7.5/2
A woman looks after her father in law.
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The Twilight Years
1937
Song of the Flower Basket
8/1
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
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Song of the Flower Basket
1941
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
6.5/4
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The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
1946
Those Who Make Tomorrow
10/1
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them stri...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
1929
Mother
9/1
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
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Mother
1956
Eyes of Children
6.667/3
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds o...
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Eyes of Children
1976
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
10/1
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an es...
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
1939
The Day Before
10/1
A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of violence...
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The Day Before
1950
Snow-Flake
7.5/2
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Snow-Flake
1941
Schoolgirl Records
10/1
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
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Schoolgirl Records
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
7/2
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
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A Ripple in a Morning
1950
Senka o koete
8/1
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Senka o koete
1962
Mother Country
6.8/5
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married s...
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Mother Country
1944
Four Marriages
8/1
Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he i...
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Four Marriages
1941
Dancers of Awa
7/1
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. Hi...
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Dancers of Awa
1943
The Opium War
8/1
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...
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The Opium War
1930
Reijin
7/1
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Reijin
1933
The Layabout and Seabathing
8/1
The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store o...
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The Layabout and Seabathing
1946
Yoki na onna
9/1
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Yoki na onna
1932
Passion
10/1
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
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Passion
1938
Chocolate and Soldiers
8.5/2
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Ja...
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Chocolate and Soldiers
1936
The New Road: Ryota
7.5/2
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. Told from the per...
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The New Road: Ryota
1943
Hyoroku's Dream Tale
10/1
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Hyoroku's Dream Tale
1944
Sagohei the Three-footer
7/1
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Sagohei the Three-footer
1943
World of Love
10/1
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...
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World of Love
1940
Hideko the Cheerleader
9/1
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
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Hideko the Cheerleader
1937
The Kingdom of Spectacles
8/1
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 w...
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The Kingdom of Spectacles
1942
Musashibo Benkei
9/1
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei
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Musashibo Benkei
1947
Invitation to Happiness
10/1
Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
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Invitation to Happiness
1938
Rainbow Hill
7/1
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 Hasegawa...
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Rainbow Hill
1942
Sky of Hope
8/1
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
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Sky of Hope
1939
Flower Picking Diary
7/2
Based on "Heaven and Maiko", a short story from the book "Chiisaki Hanabana" by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backg...
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Flower Picking Diary
1939
Beautiful Departure
10/1
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone...
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Beautiful Departure
1937
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
0/0
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply...
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A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
0/0
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply...
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A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1939
Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei
0/0
Original work by Hyakken Uchida.
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Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
7/1
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 lum...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
8/1
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 lum...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
1931
Sisters: Part 1
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Sisters: Part 1
1931
Sisters: Part 2
7/1
Japanese silent film from 1931.
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Sisters: Part 2
1934
Mother of the East
7/1
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Mother of the East
1949
Goodbye
8/1
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Goodbye
1937
Young Lady
8/1
The story deas with the experiences of an exceptionally strong-willed, middle class Tokyo "ojōsan" who comes to teach in a middle school in the countr...
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Young Lady
1948
365 Nights: Tokyo
8/1
Film by Kon Ichikawa
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