Chieko Higashiyama
Acting
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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movieShogun and His Mistress 2
1967
Eiho, nun
movieThe Kii River
1966
Toyono, Hana's grandmother
movieSing, Young People!
1963
Okada's grandmother
movieA Woman's Life
1962
Shizu Tsutsumi
movieDiary of a Mad Old Man
1962
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
movieThe Wandering Princess
1960
Nao Sugawara
movieWhen a Woman Loves
1960
Relative
movieSpring Dreams
1960
Grandma
movieDiary of an Elegant Hot Spring
1958
Mrs. Chiyoda
movieThe Nun
1958
монахиня Масамицу
movieThe Loyal 47 Ronin
1958
Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
movieThe Blue Sky Maiden
1957
Shizue Hirooka
In Case of One Woman
1956
Natsuko Hashiba
movieIf Indeed One Loves
1955
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
movieHow the Bell of Liberty Rings
1954
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
movieThe Garden of Women
1954
Schoolmaster
movieTokyo Story
1953
Tomi Hirayama
movieShishun no izumi
1953
Retired Person
movieEarly Summer
1951
Shige Mamiya
movieThe Tale of Genji
1951
Lady Kokiden
movieThe Idiot
1951
Satoko, Ayako's mother
movieSpring Snow
1950
Mother Okasaki
movieBroken Drum
1949
Nobuko
movieHere's to the Young Lady
1949
Yasuko's mother
movieThe Portrait
1948
Nomura's Wife
movieMarriage
1947
Fumie's mother
movieThe Girl I Loved
1946
Mother Okin
movieWakaki sugata
1943
Kitamura's wife
movieThe Siege of Osaka
1937
Yodo-dono