
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 |
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Most Rating | 5.109 |
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
0/0
1951 Japanese movie
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Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
8/110
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
6.9/18
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
7.7/86
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
7.2/33
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
0/0
Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
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The Devil of Edo

1956

Flowing
7.1/31
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
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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
6.963/27
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them fa...
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The Munekata Sisters

1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.1/8
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
7.7/96
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
6.2/22
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
7.5/16
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a...
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Immortal Love

1962

The Wiser Age
7.3/7
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
7.3/9
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
8.1/65
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
6.7/42
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.
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Tokyo Chorus

1939

Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
0/0
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
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Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki

1967

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
6.9/8
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
7.1/12
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
6.5/11
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
7.2/11
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – P...
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A Wanderer's Notebook

1969

Devil's Temple
6.4/7
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

1954

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
6/5
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

1938

Tojuro's Love
0/0
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
6.4/7
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
0/0
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
5.8/12
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
5.2/8
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
6.6/9
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!
5.2/5
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
7.5/12
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
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 & Fall Once Again

1939

My Daughter's Only Wish
0/0
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
6.3/7
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Gi...
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The Other Woman

1957

Times of Joy and Sorrow
9/1
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 Conductress
7/6
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 Conductress

1940

A Gentle Breeze With Father
0/0
9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
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A Gentle Breeze With Father

1966

Moment of Terror
6.3/11
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by t...
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Moment of Terror

1931

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
7/1
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
6/1
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
0/0
The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
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A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

1976

Two Iida
0/0
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
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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
0/0
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
6.8/4
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
7/1
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
5.8/4
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
6.4/12
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
7.2/24
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
5/3
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
0/0
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
6.8/11
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for...
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A Wife's Heart

1957

Flying in the Air
0/0
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

(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
0/0
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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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home

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
6/1
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
9/5
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
8.4/183
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 life,...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1949

Ginza Cancan Girls
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
6.9/7
Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
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Composition Class

1940

Bellflower
0/0
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
7/1
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
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Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
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Ichiyo Higuchi

1955

The First Kiss
6.3/3
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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The First Kiss

1962

Ballad of a Workman
5.7/6
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
0/0
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
8/1
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Lord for a Night

1942

Onna keizu
0/0
1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
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Onna keizu

1942

The Man Who Waited
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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
7/1
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
0/0
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
0/0
A woman looks after her father in law.
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The Twilight Years

1937

Song of the Flower Basket
0/0
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
5.3/3
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The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

1946

Those Who Make Tomorrow
0/0
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sym...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow

1929

Mother
0/0
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
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Mother

1956

Eyes of Children
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
8/1
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Snow-Flake

1941

Schoolgirl Records
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
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Senka o koete

1962

Mother Country
6.5/4
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
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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
0/0
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Reijin

1933

The Layabout and Seabathing
0/0
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
0/0
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Yoki na onna

1932

Passion
0/0
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
0/0
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
8/1
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
0/0
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Hyoroku's Dream Tale

1944

Sagohei the Three-footer
0/0
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Sagohei the Three-footer

1943

World of Love
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
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Invitation to Happiness

1938

Rainbow Hill
0/0
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
0/0
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
0/0
Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.
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Flower Picking Diary

1939

Beautiful Departure
0/0
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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