Enduring Charm of Hideko Takamine – (March 27, 1924 – December 28, 2010)
(Yumi Shirakawa, Hideko Takamine, Yoko Minamida, Misako Uji and Yumiko Hasegawa visiting Elvis.)
Hideko Takamine 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
A child actress on the right was Takamine Hideko .
(Kayama Yuzo and Hideko Takamine in “Yearning directed by Mikio Naruse)
Mifune and Takamine Hideko in A Wife’s Heart
Takamine Hideko and Akutagawa Hiroshi in Mistress (film based on Ogai’s Wilde Geese)
Ōgai’s most popular novel, Gan (1911–13; part translation: The Wild Goose), is the story of the undeclared love of a moneylender’s mistress for a medical student who passes by her house each day.
Takamine Hideko in Naruse masterpiece..
(Wong Kar Wai was thinking of Naruse when he made In the Mood for Love.)
Gesture and pose of cinema of M.Naruse
Harvard Archive list of Naruse films
Summer Clouds, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Floating Clouds (3 film stills)