Hideko Takamine Movies

1951 Japanese movie

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...

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.

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...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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...

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...

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose wh...

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...

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...

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.

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through thre...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

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...

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...

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

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...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.