Hideko Takamine
Actress

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Hideko Takamine was a highly acclaimed and prolific Japanese actress, born in 1924 in Hakodate, Hokkaido. She began her career as a child actress at the age of five, and went on to work with renowned directors such as Kinoshita, Ozu, and Naruse Mikio. She was known for her feminist roles, in which she depicted women seeking independence or facing oppression. In 1955, she married director Matsuyama Zenzo, and continued to work with notable directors until her death in 2010 due to lung cancer. Before her death, she had recorded songs and written biographies.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Assistant Director, Costume Designer
Birth Day March 27, 1924
Birth Place  Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, Japan
Age 96 YEARS OLD
Died On December 28, 2010(2010-12-28) (aged 86)\nTokyo, Japan
Birth Sign Aries
Cause of death Lung cancer
Occupation Actress
Years active 1929–1979
Spouse(s) Zenzo Matsuyama (m. 1955; her death 2010)
Awards Japan Academy Prize Lifetime Achievement Award 1996 Mainichi Film Concours Best Actress 1962 Happiness of Us Alone 1958 Times of Joy and Sorrow 1956 Floating Clouds 1955 Twenty-Four Eyes

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1924

Takamine was born in Hakodate, Hokkaidō in 1924. Her first role was in the Shochiku studio's 1929 film Mother (Haha), which brought her tremendous popularity as a child actor. Soon she was billed as Japan's Shirley Temple.

1937

After moving to the Toho studio in 1937, her dramatic roles in Kajirō Yamamoto's Tsuzurikata kyōshitsu and Uma brought her added fame as a girl star. Some of her film appearances from the 1930s and 1940s were lost during the Second World War when Japan's film archives were damaged by bombing and fires.

1950

In 1950, she made what was considered a very daring move by breaking with the Japanese studio system, leaving the Shin Toho Studio and becoming a much sought-after freelance Actress. Her films with Directors Keisuke Kinoshita and Mikio Naruse during the 1950s and early 1960s made her Japan's top star. Her performance as a dedicated small town Teacher observing her students' lives over several decades in Kinoshita's The Twenty-four Eyes (1954) is credited with that film's tremendous success and enduring popularity in Japan. Another powerful performance was as a tenant farmer's daughter who is raped and forced to marry the cruel landlord's crippled son in the 1961 film Immortal Love.

1955

She married director-writer Zenzo Matsuyama in 1955, but set a precedent by choosing not to give up her acting career. She made many of her most memorable films in the 1960s and retired from making movies in 1979.

2010

She died of lung cancer on 28 December 2010 at the age of 86.

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Tags 1924 births 2010 deaths Japanese actresses People from Hakodate, Hokkaido Deaths from lung cancer Deaths from cancer in Japan 20th-century Japanese actresses Japanese child actresses Japanese film actresses Japanese autobiographers Women autobiographers

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