◆ Jiang Feng, chief writer of "Japanese Overseas Chinese Daily".
In April, when the cherry blossoms had to barely bloom under a gloomy and cold sky, a poster was posted all over the streets of Tokyo with the words "Hideko Takamine's Aesthetics," "A Super Actress Who Overcame Adversity," "Commemorating the 100th Anniversary," "Hideko Takamine's Favorite Kimono," and "Tokyo Tower Special Exhibition." Looking at the poster, I was thinking that people in the world like to say that "life is like morning dew for a hundred years, and everything in the world is floating clouds", which seems to be a kind of understanding, but it is actually an excuse for not making "achievements" in one's own life. If you really contribute to society, someone will read it in a hundred years.
Those who are familiar with Japanese movies know that Hideko Takamine has the reputation of "screen goddess" in Japan. She started acting in the film industry at the age of 5, and by the time she died at the age of 86, she had acted in more than 300 movies in her life. If she is famous in China, it may be because of two things: first, in April 1932, the new drama "Songfeng Village Rain" was performed, in which she played the boyhood of the puppet "Manchukuo" emperor Pu Yi, thus leaving a mark on the hearts of Chinese audiences. Second, in 1962, when a friendly delegation of Chinese filmmakers to Japan arrived in Japan, she was entrusted by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attend the reception with her husband. One of the important figures in this delegation is the big star Zhao Dan. During the ten years of turmoil in China, Zhao Dan was thrown into prison because of her relationship with the top female star in Shanghai who held power, and the news of the danger reached Japan. In a sense, Gao Feng Xiuzi is Zhao Dan's "life-saving benefactor".
Although Hideko Takamine has participated in more than 300 films, most of them are "little people". In films before Japan's defeat in 1945, she mostly played the role of a poor child. In post-war films, she played a working woman in "Ripples in the Morning", a teacher in "Twenty-Four Eyes", a woman with a "love brain" in "Floating Clouds", a wife who was forced to marry in "The Forever Man", a female deaf and mute living at the lowest end of society in "The Beauty of Anonymous Poverty", a "mother" at a Ginza bar in "When a Woman Climbs the Steps", and a wife as a woman plays the role of a concubine, which seems to have gone through all the roles of women in her life, and the film industry evaluates her as "who plays like whom", so she has won the reputation of "Changing Star".
As for her "adversity", she should have lost her mother when she was 4 years old, and then passed on to her aunt to become an adopted daughter. But when my aunt was 17 years old, she eloped with a movie narrator, and Hideko Takamine naturally got into trouble. When director Goshoheinosuke wanted to adopt her as an adopted daughter, her aunt rushed to resolutely oppose it when she heard the news. Later, pop singer Kaitaro Higashibayashi hoped to adopt Hideko Takamine as his adopted daughter, which caused another storm. There was a fire in his hometown in Hokkaido, and his grandfather Rimatsu had no place to live, so he brought a family of nine to Tokyo to join Takamine Hideko. She really did it, and she took on the heavy responsibility of feeding ten people by herself.
Gradually become a big name. First of all, he wanted to enter the Takarazuka Opera Troupe, and then he entered the famous film studios such as Shochiku and Toho, and during the filming, he sparked love with the film director Akira Kurosawa, and was disturbed by his aunt. On the eve of the end of the war, she was going to the Suzaki Air Force to do a "condolence performance". After the war, she was going to give a "condolence performance" to the American occupation forces. Once wanted to marry Toho's senior management, but before getting married, he found that the other party was "stepping on two boats", and the personality of Takato Hideko simply resigned.
The love lives of celebrities are mostly unstable. Hideko Takamine was repeatedly adopted as an adopted daughter when she was a teenager, and finally adopted Akemi Saito, the editor and reporter of "Literature and Art Spring and Autumn" who repeatedly helped her publish books, as her adopted daughter. She began to practice smoking at the age of 22 in order to play a good role in the movie, and as a result, she trained herself to become a "smoker", and died of lung cancer at the age of 86.
"Life is a guest for a hundred years, don't laugh at the people, laugh at my body. "I suspect that on the occasion of Japan's commemoration of the centenary of Hideko Takamine's birth, she should have wanted to say this sentence under the nine springs. (Written on April 10, 2024 in Tokyo "Rakuhosai")