Hideko Takamine, who passed away on Dec. 28th at the age of 86, had a face worth puzzling over. In her films with director Mikio Naruse, she engineered an impassive, barely perceptible sag to her delicate kewpie doll features, embodying the spiritual toll post-WWII deprivations had inflicted on her indomitable Japanese women. She expresses the [...]![]()
