Hideko Takamine
Hideko Takamine ( Japanese 高峰 秀 子 , Takamine Hideko , real name 松山 秀 子 , Matsuyama Hideko , née Hirayama Hideko ( 平 山 秀 子 ); born March 27, 1924 in Hakodate ; † December 28, 2010 in Shibuya , Tokyo ) was a Japanese actress . During her five-decade career, she was one of the most popular Japanese film stars. Today she is mostly associated with Mikio Naruse , who cast her in seventeen films.
Life
At the age of five, Takamine was in Hōtei Nomura's Haha (mother) for the Shōchiku studio for the first time in front of the camera. The success of the film gave her a long-term commitment, so that she appeared in over a hundred films over the next few years and became the most popular child actor in her home country. At that time it was considered the Japanese counterpart to Shirley Temple . In contrast to this, she took on both female and male roles in her films.
After leaving school in 1937, she signed the Tōhō film studio . The first successes with criticism were achieved here, mainly through the collaboration with the director Kajirō Yamamoto : Both her role as a poor girl struggling for a better life in Tsuzurikata kyoshitsu and her embodiment of a farmer's daughter who lovingly raises a horse and it eventually has to sell it to the army, in Uma (horse) brought their praise. The film Hideko no shashō-san (Hideko, the bus driver), which bears her name in the title, testifies to her popularity with the audience . Here she first worked with Mikio Naruse . In Masahiro Makinos Ahen sensō (The Opium War) she can be seen at the side of Setsuko Hara .
During the Second World War she was a pin-up girl for the Japanese soldiers and performed as a singer in night clubs. A strike at Tōhō caused her to turn her back on the studio in 1946 and to hire Shintōhō . Her most important work from this creative period is The Sisters Munekata (1950), directed by Yasujiro Ozu . In addition, the year before she landed a hit in Japan with the single Ginza kankan musume (The Cancan Dancer of Ginza ) from the film of the same name.
1950 ended her activity with Shintōhō. From then on, she was no longer tied to a studio, but instead pursued acting as a freelancer. The following twenty years represented the artistically most significant phase of her career. Among the films from this time stand out those that she made with Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita .
For Mikio Naruse she stood in front of the camera in seventeen films and mostly embodied the type of the strong-willed, hard-working woman who is at the bottom of society or is subjugated by the family system. Her relationship to Naruse is often compared to that of a muse, similar to how Setsuko Hara portrayed her for Yasujiro Ozu and Kinuyo Tanaka for Kenji Mizoguchi . In Driving Clouds , she plays a woman in the turmoil of post-war Japan who clings to a married, unfaithful soldier and thereby destroys herself. The film has received numerous awards, she herself was honored as best actress with the Kinema Jumpō Prize .
The formative works she realized with Kinoshita include the first Japanese color film Carmen Comes Home , in which she demonstrated her comedic talent as a moronic stripper, the continuation of Carmen's pure love and the anti-militarist drama Twenty-Four Eyes , in which she plays a committed teacher who accompanied the life of her twelve students from the early Shōwa period to the post-war period.
In 1955 she married Kinoshita's then assistant director Zenzō Matsuyama , who later worked as a director and screenwriter. Contrary to convention, she did not withdraw into family life, but continued her work as an actress. According to her own statements, she wanted to create a new type of working wife. Takamine's husband also made several films with her in the following years. The last time she was in 1979 in Kinoshitas Shōdō satsujin: Musuko yo to see on the big screen. Her role earned her yet another nomination for the Japanese Academy Award .
From the 1950s she appeared as an essayist and author of travel literature. In 1976 she published her two-part autobiography Watashi no Tosei Nikki (My Job Diary). Most recently she lived alternately in Tokyo and Hawaii . In 2010 Takamine died of lung cancer at the age of 86.
Filmography (selection)
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Awards
- Blue Ribbon Award for "Best Actress" 1955
- Japanese Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement 1996
- Kinema Junpo Award for "Best Actress" 1955
- Mainichi Eiga Concours as "Best Actress" 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961
Web links
- Hideko Takamine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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- James Bell: Takamine Hideko, 1924-2010 . In: Sight & Sound, February 2011, p. 41. ( online )
- Ronald Bergan: Hideko Takamine obituary; Japanese actor whose forte was courageous, independent, strong-willed heroines . In: Guardian, January 14, 2011. ( online )
- Hans-Michael Bock (Hrsg.): Lexicon film actors international. Volume L-ZS 752f. Rowohlt Publishing House. Reinbek 1997.
- Dave Kehr : Hideko Takamine, Lauded Japanese Actress, Dies at 86 . In: New York Times, Jan. 5, page A20. ( online )
- Tom Pendergast (Ed.): The international dictionary of films and filmmakers . Volume 3: Actors and actresses. P. 1181f. 4th edition. St. James Press. Chicago 2000.
- David Thomson: The New Biographical Dictionary of Film . P. 852f. 4th edition. Little, Brown & Company. New York 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 高峰 秀 子 さ ん 死去 ／ ８６ 歳 、 「二十 四 の 瞳」 主演 . In: Shikoku Shimbun. January 1, 2010, Retrieved June 14, 2011 (Japanese).
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| SURNAME | Takamine, Hideko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 高峰 秀 子 (Japanese); 松山 秀 子 (Japanese, real name); Matsuyama, Hideko (real name); 平 山 秀 子 (Japanese, maiden name); Hirayama Hideko (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hakodate , Hokkaidō, Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2010 |
| Place of death | Shibuya , Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |