<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hideko in color -- a couple of Naruse possibilities -- albeit not easily available: Daughters, Wives, Mothers (or Daughter, Wife, Mother) (1960) and As a Wife, As a Woman (1961). I especially like the latter.<br><br>But the riches in black and white seem almost boundless.<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 1/1/11, Roger Macy <i><macyroger@yahoo.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Roger Macy <macyroger@yahoo.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: Takamine Hideko<br>To: KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<br>Date: Saturday, January 1, 2011, 1:22 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1554278898">
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<div><font face="Arial">Yes, She was a mesmerising actress. Above all for
me, she was the centre of <em>Ukigumo</em>, which I believe gets many votes from
Japanese critics as their favourite film. She is number one in the
lavishly illustrated 'Mikio Naruse with Actresses', 2005. It would be
wonderful to have her memoirs translated but for us more linguistically
challenged, the <span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Jinbōchō
theater this summer was selling <span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Joyū
Takamine Hideko</em></span> at 1200 yen, which was packed with stills from her
films., as well as a filmography.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Carmen
Comes Home</em> would be a revelation as she exists for me entirely
in black-and-white.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Roger</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Subject: Re: Takamine Hideko</font></div></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><font face="Arial">>I showed my students
24 Eyes a few weeks ago. We saw it as a follow-up to <br>> Kon's Millennium
Actress, in which the main character is a composite, mainly of <br>> Takamine
Hideko and Hara Setsuko.<br>> <br>> The students were moved and surprised
- they'd never seen a Japanese film like <br>> this before, and one wrote her
term paper about it.<br>> <br>> I mentioned in class that the irony was
that Kon was gone in his forties, while <br>> the two actresses he referenced
in Millennium Actress were still with us. But now <br>> Takamine is gone as
well.<br>> <br>> She wrote a 2-volume book of memoirs, which should be
translated. She and <br>> Kurosawa had a sort of bittersweet romance back
around 1940-41, when she <br>> starred in Uma, and Kurosawa was the first
assistant director. I believe he first <br>> directed scenes on his own in
this film, and worked directly with her quite a bit. <br>> She was very much
younger than he, in her teens, and was a big star, while he <br>> was still
just starting out in his career and past 30. So it couldn't and didn't <br>>
amount to much in the end. She discusses it in her memoirs, written decades
<br>> later.<br>> <br>> Her earliest performance on US-playable DVD may
be in Tokyo Chorus/Tokyo <br>> no Korasu, 1931, in the box set Silent Ozu.
Two decades later she starred in <br>> Carmen Goes Back Home, post-WWII,
which was I believe the first color film <br>> made in Japan, and is very
entertaining. She was a truly great actress, and a <br>> notable writer in
her later years as well.<br>> <br>> Michael McCaskey<br>> Georgetown
Univ.<br>></font></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>