Chieko Higashiyama
Acting
Born: September 30, 1890 · Chiba, Japan
Died: May 8, 1980 (aged 89)
Highest Rated
Biography
Chieko Higashiyama (September 30, 1890 – May 8, 1980) was a Japanese actress. Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress. She trained at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō, a pioneering theater then-famous for modern Japanese plays and translated performances of Western playwrights. Higashiyama appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.
Known for
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Movies (86)
Tokyo Story
Tomi Hirayama
The Second Kiss
1954
The Idiot
Satoko, Ayako's mother
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
Early Summer
Shige Mamiya
Maboroshi no Satsui
1971
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
1949
The Nun
монахиня Масамицу
The Blue Sky Maiden
Shizue Hirooka
The Most Valuable Wife
1959
Swords and Brocade
1951
An Heir's Place
1953
A Samurai's Love
1954
I Saw a Phantom Fish
1950
When a Woman Loves
Relative
The Tale of Genji
Lady Kokiden
Sincere Heart
Ichi
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Strange Beauty
Ai to chie no wa
1956
Apostasy
1948
Spring Dreams
Grandma
Broken Drum
Nobuko
Hana no yukyo-den
1958
The Kii River
Toyono, Hana's grandmother
Sing, Young People!
Okada's grandmother
The Wandering Princess
Nao Sugawara
Love School
1962
Here's to the Young Lady
Yasuko's mother
The Portrait
Nomura's Wife
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Unnamed
Miss Teacher
1955
Kanojo no tokudane
1952
The Maid's Kid
1955
The Snow Flurry
Tomi
If Indeed One Loves
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
The Garden of Women
Schoolmaster
This Year's Love
1962
Battle Troop
1944
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Mrs. Chiyoda
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Virtue in Spades
1956
Itohan Monogatari
Owasa
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953
The Princess Sen
1954
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
School Girls in Costume
1955
Carmen's Innocent Love
Maid
Ano hito wa ima
1963
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Live Again Tomorrow
その
The End of the War
1950
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Eiho, nun
Fireworks Over the Sea
Mitsu
Spring Snow
Mother Okasaki
The Girl I Loved
Mother Okin
Rain on Jogashima
1950
A Woman's Life
Shizu Tsutsumi
Here It is Quiet
1956
Marriage
Fumie's mother
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
The Angry Street
1950
Shisha to no kekkon
1960
Women's House
1954
Ah, Youth
1951
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
Love and Death
1971
Port of Flowers
Okano
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Sweet Secret
1971
Wakaki sugata
Kitamura's wife
Yassamossa
1953
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1953
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
1954
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952
Mount Hakone
1962
The Doctor
1955
Four Seasons of Women
Mother
The Sky Is Mine
1959
Ningen moyo
1949
The Siege of Osaka
Yodo-dono
Shishun no izumi
Retired Person
Floating Weeds Diary
Backstage Attendant
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949
The Gentle Japanese
1971
