Hideko Takamine Movies

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

82/100

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

Floating Clouds

78/100

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.

Tokyo Chorus

74/100

A married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.

Flowing

78/100

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo...

Yearning

82/100

The Munekata Sisters

75/100

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been...

The Rickshaw Man

76/100

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

Carmen Comes Home

67/100

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper.

Bitter Spirit

74/100

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.

The River Fuefuki

71/100

A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan.

The Chase

72/100

Two cops on stakeout wait for a murderer.

Gan

74/100

A lowly divorcee is tricked into becoming the mistress of a despised moneylender but soon falls in love with a student.

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

73/100

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal ... See full summary »

Asu o tsukuru hitobito

66/100

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled...

Hit and Run

70/100

A child is killed in a hit and run. The mother plots her revenge by posing as a maid in the house of the murderer.

Carmen Falls in Love

67/100

A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.

A Woman's Life

74/100

Uma

69/100

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly...

Poignant Story

72/100

Happiness of Us Alone

84/100

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

53/100

Inazuma

77/100

A Wanderer's Notebook

75/100

Hideko, the Bus Conductor

72/100

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

74/100