Setsuko Hara, Kinuyo Tanaka and Hideko Takamine—muses of the great directors Yasujir Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, respectively—are three of the greatest. But unlike Hara and Tanaka ...

On one quiet evening during the New Year’s holidays, the film Karumen kokyo ni kaeru (Carmen Comes Home) starring Hideko Takamine was aired on NHK BS, and I nostalgically watched it right to the ...

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 in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district.

Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant with the child of Hiroshi, the son of an large ...