Mieko Takamine
Acting • Born 1918-12-02 – Died 1990-05-27
Biography
Mieko Takamine (高峰三枝子, Takamine Mieko) (2 December 1918 – 27 May 1990) was a Japanese actress and singer. Mieko Takamine was born the eldest daughter of famous chikuzen biwa player and teacher Chikufu Takamine. She gave her acting debut in the 1936 film Kimi yo takarakani utae, produced by the Shochiku studios, to which she would remain affiliated throughout her career, although she would also occasionally appear in productions of other companies after the war. Her first released record as a singer was the theme song for the film Hotaru no hikari (1938), and she soon established herself as a "singing movie star". Takamine starred in films of Japan's most notable directors, including Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita. In 1976, Takamine won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 19th Blue Ribbon Awards for her role in The Inugamis (1976). In 1985, she was awarded the Medal of Purple Ribbon and a special Mainichi Film Award for her longtime achievements as a performer
Filmography
115 credits
Five Men of Edo
Movie • 1951
Okinu
A Good Man, A Good Day
Movie • 1961
Omatsuri hanjiro
Movie • 1953
Yume de aritai
Movie • 1962
Red Bud and White Flower
Movie • 1962
A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
Movie • 1956
The Wanderer
Movie • 1957
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Movie • 1952
The Beauty of the Evening Sky
Movie • 1948
Gekimetsu no uta
Movie • 1945
桜井千鶴
Homecoming
Movie • 1964
守屋節子
Kono ni uruwashi
Movie • 1962
When We Came Back
Movie • 1950
The 47 Ronin
Movie • 1941
Omino
Hotaru no hikari
Movie • 1938
一本刀土俵入
Movie • 1954
Flower Season
Movie • 1990
Nobuko
Movie • 1940
The Inugami Family
Movie • 1976
Matsuko Inugami
Futari no Koibito
Movie • 1969
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Movie • 1941
Setsuko Toda
Rebellion Reward
Movie • 1973
Yoshie
Pomegranate Time
Movie • 1967
Nobuko Sakamoto
Theater
Movie • 1945
Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
Movie • 1957
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Movie • 1953
The Garden of Women
Movie • 1954
Mayumi Gojo
The Flower is not False
Movie • 1941
South Wind
Movie • 1942
Moon of the Plateau
Movie • 1942
The Trio's Engagements
Movie • 1937
Reiko Kageyama
Love Under the Crucifix
Movie • 1962
Riki
San'nin musume kanpai!
Movie • 1962
Elegy of the North
Movie • 1957
Akiko Katsuragi
Love's Family Tree
Movie • 1961
治郎吉格子
Movie • 1952
お仙
Ejima and Ikushima
Movie • 1955
月光院
Rira no hana wasureji
Movie • 1947
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
Movie • 1947
Castle of Flames
Movie • 1960
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1951
Namiko
Aruhi watashi wa
Movie • 1967
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
Movie • 1954
The Lights of Asakusa
Movie • 1937
Reiko Kosugi
憧れの星座
Movie • 1953
At the Side of the Bridge 2
Movie • 1962
Kare o korosu na
Movie • 1952
Once More
Movie • 1947
Akiko
Escape from Prison
Movie • 1950
Kayo
So Goes My Love
Movie • 1938
Toshiko, Shigeo's sisiter
Freedom School
Movie • 1951
Naite waratta hanayome
Movie • 1962
Wife
Movie • 1953
Mihoko Nakagawa
Ikeru isu
Movie • 1945
Queen Bee
Movie • 1978
Takako Higashikoji
An Ocean to Cross
Movie • 1980
Yoroshime
A New Breeze
Movie • 1945
South Wind 2
Movie • 1942
Minami kaze
Movie • 1951
The Sands of Kurobe
Movie • 1968
Dreaming People
Movie • 1953
The Phoenix
Movie • 1978
Queen Himiko of Yamatai
Memories of You
Movie • 1988
Appassionata
Movie • 1984
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Movie • 1980
Here Because of You
Movie • 1964
Points and Lines
Movie • 1958
Ryoko
Street of Ronin
Movie • 1957
Bright Sea
Movie • 1963
Yukiko Ishida
The Masseurs and a Woman
Movie • 1938
Michiho Misawa
Victory Song
Movie • 1945
Nobue
The Golden Demon
Movie • 1937
Toshiko Minowa
Renai muteki kantai
Movie • 1937
Vermilion and Green
Movie • 1937
Song of Farewell
Movie • 1965
Haruko Nomura
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie • 1989
Haruko Saito
Fantasy of Youth
Movie • 1955
Moon Over the Ruins
Movie • 1937
Omitsu
Eyes of Children
Movie • 1956
Man of Thirteen Eyes
Movie • 1958
The Image of Mother
Movie • 1963
Ohama
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie • 1959
Let Us Love
Movie • 1967
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
Movie • 1954
Marriageable Age
Movie • 1961
Lovers' Duet
Movie • 1939
Eiko Takayama
Lover's Duet
Movie • 1967
Aspiration
Movie • 1977
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Movie • 1957
Yoshie Kono
Warm Current
Movie • 1939
Keiko Shima
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Movie • 1957
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
Movie • 1943
Setsuko Ueno
Omoide no borero
Movie • 1950
Rumba of Passion
Movie • 1950
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Movie • 1951
The Incorrigible
Movie • 1963
Elegy
Movie • 1951
Let's Go in Good Spirits
Movie • 1941
Waiting Woman
Movie • 1946
Ah, Youth
Movie • 1951
Dance of the Capital
Movie • 1942
The Shogun Assassins
Movie • 1979
At the Side of the Bridge 3
Movie • 1963
Summer in Eclipse
Movie • 1956
Setsuko
女たちの庭
Movie • 1967
石塚綾子
Denshichi Torimonocho: Mad Skullwoman
Movie • 1958
恋と出世に強くなれ！
Movie • 1963
牧野春代
The Road to the Spring
Movie • 1955
Hatano Tsuneko
A Woman's Fight
Movie • 1949
Farewell Tango
Movie • 1949
Hanamura Emiko
Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
Movie • 1956
Dancer Takai
The Lady Was Pawn
Movie • 1956
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
TV • 1983
Itoko Ichiyanagi
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
TV • 1983
Matsuyo Tokiwa
Ningen no Shōmei
TV • 1978