Hideko

Takamine Hideko is just one of the saddest creatures you've ever seen.

GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 2/27. 2007

This 24-film survey of Japanese cinema classics organizes itself as a look back at the career highlights of five of the country's screen heroines: Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Machiko Kyo, Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine.

Adrift at Home, Anchored Abroad Steve Dollar 2011

Yuriko Nakao/Reuters 79-year-old Hideko Kurihara lifted wooden dumbbells during a health promotion event to mark Japan's 'Respect for the Aged Day' at a temple in Tokyo on Monday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

Michnewicz chose her because of her filmmaker's sensibility (the play uses a lot of projections) and because she belongs to the disabled community in a different way than the characters Gretty and Hideko.

Theater Alliance revives 'Gretty Good Time' for International VSA Festival 2010

Hideko is part of a group of Japanese women brought to America for plastic surgery to heal their more superficial wounds.

Theater Alliance revives 'Gretty Good Time' for International VSA Festival 2010

In the play, Gretty escapes through her dreams, in which she time-travels with a young Japanese woman, Hideko (Caitlin Gold), whose face was burned by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Theater Alliance revives 'Gretty Good Time' for International VSA Festival 2010

-- Hideko TakayamaThe Bright Forever by Lee MartinUsing deft strokes of detail, Martin gets inside the various personalities composing the Indiana town where the 9-year-old daughter of a prominent family goes missing while riding her bike to the library.

Snap Judgment: Books 2007

Hideko TakayamaItalyTrying to Dodge BlameItalians have good reason to be angry with their politicians.

Powell Pulls Through 2007

-- Hideko TakayamaWild East Edited by Boris Fishman Reading this short-story collection is like taking a whirlwind tour of what Fishman dubs the "last frontier" -- the vast and oft-neglected region of Eastern Europe.

SNAP JUDGEMENT: BOOKS 2007

- B.J. Lee and Hideko TakayamaTurkeySidelined ContenderWhat makes a coup a coup?

International Periscope 2007