<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font face="Arial">Takamine Hideko was always one of my favorite
Japanese actresses. As a child star, she was as adorable as could be, as
a teenager, as cute as could be, and as an adult, as beautiful as could
be. She was a remarkably versatile actress, one who quickly
transitioned from precocious children in films by Ozu Yasujiro (<i>Tokyo Chorus</i>), to cute girls in Makino Masahiro (<i>Awa no odoriko</i> or <i>Hanako-san</i>), to dramatic powerhouse in Yamamoto Kajiro (<i>Tsuzurikata kyoshitsu</i> or <i>Uma</i>) -- all before she even hit age 15. As an adult, she was most famous for the dramatic works of Kinoshita Keisuke (Twenty-Four Eyes<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=tangemania-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0019X400S" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" width="1" height="1">) and Naruse Mikio (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=tangemania-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000KRNGNQ" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" width="1" height="1">; her face at the end of <i>Midareru</i> is one of the most powerful visages in film history and graces the front page of Catherine Russell's The Cinema of Naruse Mikio<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=tangemania-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0822343126" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" width="1" height="1">), but we should not forget her great talent for comedy (playing a stripper in Kinoshita's <i>Carmen Comes Hom</i>e or a conniving housewife in the satirical <i>Fuzen no tomoshibi</i>) and for singing (<i>Ginza kankan musume</i>).
She seemingly could do everything, and do it with resolve and bright
inner strength. After retiring as an actress, she even excelled as a
witty essayist, publishing nearly a dozen books. </font><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">I link to one of her songs on my blog:</font></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.aarongerow.com/news/">http://www.aarongerow.com/news/</a></font></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; 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