
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.

as Yukie Kawase

as Kikue Sugawa

as Akiko (Nobutoshi's wife)

as Kaede

as Otsugi

as Kuniko, the Mother

as Ine

as Noriko Nemoto

as Reiko Morita

as Nobuko Shimizu

as Komako Kuwata

as Fumiko Hayashi

as Torae Nonaka

as Yoshiko, Ishikawa-ke no yome

as Sadako

as Miho Nishigaki

as Hinanmin no Onna

as Akiko Katayama

as Okei

as Kazuko Sakanishi, Yuichiro's wife

as Keiko Yashiro

as Yoshiko Yoshioka

as Sadako Yokokawa

as Yuriko

as Kiyoko Arisawa

as Oshima

as Katsuyo

as Kiyoko

as Akiko Kaneda

as Fuyuko Terada

as Machiko

as Yukiko Koda

as Yasuko, Ryoichi's sister

as Ôishi Sensei

as Yoshie Izushi

as Otama

as Senko Azuma

as Carmen

as Kiyoko

as Kyoko Mine

as Atsuko Takimoto

as Kin Aoyama aka Lily Carmen

as Tomoko, Kosaku's daughter

as Naeko Minamoto

as Mariko Munekata

as Taeko

as Akiko Hojo

as Teruko Ôe

as Ranko Komaki

as Machiko

as Onatsu

as Takamine

as Akako Tatsuta

as Otae

as Tomi Odagiri

as Kaido-jo

as Chiyoko, Goro's sister

as Taeko

as Hideko

as Okoma, the bus conductress

as Sachiko Kamata

as Ine Onoda

as Princess

as Yumiko

as Hideko Takashima

as Otsu

as Shigeko

as Masako

as Yuri

as Hamako

as Little girl in theater

as Momoyo

as Mitsuko's child

as Momoyo Sone

as Sono Choujo

as Yasuo (Son)

as Yasuo (son)

as Iwao

as Haruko