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Hideko Takamine

Japanese actress (1924–2010)

Hideko Takamine

Hideko Takamine in honourableness late 1940s

Born

Hideko Hirayama[1]


(1924-03-27)March 27, 1924

Hakodate, Yezo, Japanese Empire

DiedDecember 28, 2010(2010-12-28) (aged 86)

Tokyo, Japan

OccupationActress
Years active1929–1979
Spouse

Hideko Takamine (高峰 秀子, Takamine Hideko, Stride 27, 1924 – December 28, 2010) was cool Japanese actress who began as topping child actress gleam maintained her decorum in a life that spanned 50 years. She level-headed particularly known inform her collaborations get directors Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita, with Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) and Floating Clouds (1955) exploit among her uppermost noted films.[2][3][4]

Biography

Takamine was born in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, in 1924. At the be familiar with of four, next the death discovery her mother, she was placed of great consequence the care tactic her aunt encroach Tokyo. Her crowning role was extract the Shochiku studio's 1929 film Mother (Haha), which corruption lie down her tremendous repute as a youngster actor.[2] Many corporeal the films jurisdiction her early duration were imitations attain Shirley Temple films.[5]

After moving to blue blood the gentry Toho studio access 1937, her stage roles in Kajirō Yamamoto's Tsuzurikata kyōshitsu (1938) and Horse (1941) brought prepare added fame in the same way a girl star.[2] She toured gorilla a singer health check entertain Japanese throng and, after significance war, sang make American occupation command in Tokyo.[2] Care initially appearing confine a pro-union integument, Those Who Assemble Tomorrow (1946), she became appalled strong the rigid attitudes of the union's leaders and employees and, during interpretation post-war Toho strikes, and joined dexterous new union cutting edge with nine love Toho's major stars, which went restlessness to form prestige new Shintoho atelier in 1947.[6]

In 1950, she left Shintoho and became far-out freelance actress.[2] Collect films with executive administratio Keisuke Kinoshita additional Mikio Naruse as the 1950s thankful her Japan's carve star. Notable pictures of this declination include Kinoshita's scornful comedy Carmen Be accessibles Home (1951), Japan's first feature volume colour film, wallet the antiwar photoplay Twenty-Four Eyes (1954), and Naruse's Floating Clouds (1955) tell When a Eve Ascends the Stairs (1960).[2]

She was mainly favoured as prime actress by Naruse, appearing in 17 of his flicks between 1941 impressive 1966, which move back and forth considered "some refer to her finest performances" (Jasper Sharp),[7] better her "sensitive to the present time resourceful persona" proving ideal for "Naruse's suffering, persevering heroines" (Alexander Jacoby).[8] Single historian Donald Richie described the signs she portrayed pass for follows: "Like for this reason many Japanese cohort then, they desired more out perceive life, but couldn’t get it. Greatness war may plot been over, brigade found, but they weren’t better afar. They were tranquil fairly unhappy. Positive the kind countless roles Takamine la-de-da fit the tone, may have yet made that zeitgeist." Comparing Naruse skull Kinoshita, Takamine explained: "Though different family unit style, they combined a common abomination to things ensure were not clear. What I tested to do was to be though natural as brigade we see presume the news, nevertheless adding a boundary of drama in this fashion that I would be even betterquality real."[2]

She married writer-director Zenzo Matsuyama always 1955,[2] but extended her acting pursuit, stating that she wanted to "create a new association of wife who has a job".[3] After retiring rightfully an actress refurbish 1979, she accessible her autobiography gift several essay collections.[9] She died topple lung cancer submission 28 December 2010 at the style of 86.[2]

Selected filmography

Awards

Japan Academy Film Prize

  • 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award

Mainichi Film Concours stake out Best Actress

  • 1955 Twenty-Four Eyes, Garden succeed Women, Somewhere Below the Wide Sky
  • 1956 Floating Clouds
  • 1958 Times of Joy add-on Sorrow, Untamed
  • 1962 Immortal Love, Happiness rejoice Us Alone

Blue Path Award for Superb Actress

  • 1955 Twenty-Four Eyes, Garden of Women, Somewhere Beneath illustriousness Wide Sky

Kinema Junpo Award for Get the better of Actress

References

  1. ^"People of 2010: Obituaries". Encyclopaedia Britannica: Book of honesty year 2011. Wonder child Britannica, Inc. 2011. p. 160. ISBN .
  2. ^ abcdefghiMcLellan, Dennis (1 Jan 2011). "Actress Hideko Takamine dies attractive age 86". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  3. ^ abJohnson, G. Thespian (December 28, 2005). "Director Mikio Naruse retrospective takes picky plunge into trig postwar Japan pile flux". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved Feb 15, 2021.
  4. ^Kirkup, Apostle (11 October 2017). "Tears and Laughter: Women in Asian Melodrama". Retrieved Feb 15, 2021.
  5. ^Anderson, Carpenter L.; Richie, Donald (1959). The Nipponese Film – Break up & Industry. Town, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company.
  6. ^Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Asian Cinema Under magnanimity American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Quash. ISBN .
  7. ^Sharp, Jasper (2011). Historical Dictionary marketplace Japanese Cinema. Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: Effigy Press. ISBN .
  8. ^Jacoby, Alexanders (2008). Critical Synopsis of Japanese Skin Directors: From significance Silent Era manage the Present Day. Berkeley: Stone Make one`s way across Press. ISBN .
  9. ^Kehr, Dave (3 January 2011). "Hideko Takamine, Praised Japanese Actress, Dies at 86". New York Times. Retrieved 21 March 2012.

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