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Chieko Higashiyama

Actor
Born September 30, 1890Died May 8, 1980 (89 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Tokyo Story
  • The Life of Oharu

Known For

  • Tokyo Story
  • Early Summer
  • The Idiot
  • Here's to the Young Lady
  • The Girl I Loved
  • We'll Meet Again
  • The Snow Flurry
  • Carmen Falls in Love
  • The Portrait
  • The Wandering Princess
  • The Garden of Women
  • Spring Dreams
  • Saikô shukun fujin
  • A Woman's Life
  • Sincere Heart
  • Port of Flowers
  • Marriage
  • Fireworks Over the Sea
  • This Year's Love
  • The Kii River
  • Sing, Young People!
  • Battle Troop
  • Good Neighbors

Chieko Higashiyama Filmography

1966
The Kii River · as Toyono, Hana's Grandmother
1964
NET Playhouse (TV Series) · as Narrator
1964
1963
Sing, Young People! · as Okada's Grandmother
1962
A Woman's Life · as Shizu Tsutsumi
1962
Diary of a Mad Old Man · as Hama, Tokusuke's Wife
1962
1962
1962
1960
The Wandering Princess · as Nao Sugawara
1960
Spring Dreams · as Grandma
1959
1959
The Snow Flurry · as Tomi
1958
1958
Utsukushii anju-san · as Монахиня Масамицу
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin · as Otaka (ôishi's Mother)
1957
We'll Meet Again · as Shizue Hirooka
1956
1955
Good Neighbors · as Tomi Etô
1955
1954
1954
The Garden of Women · as Schoolmaster
1953
Tokyo Story · as Tomi Hirayama
1953
Sincere Heart · as Ichi
1952
1952
The Life of Oharu · as Myokai, The Old Nun
1951
Genji monogatari · as Lady Kokiden
1951
1951
Early Summer · as Shige Mamiya
1951
The Idiot · as Satoko, Ayako's Mother
1950
1949
A Broken Drum · as Nobuko
1949
1949
Here's to the Young Lady · as Yasuko's Mother
1948
1948
1947
1947
Marriage · as Fumie's Mother
1946
The Girl I Loved · as Mother Okin
1944
1943
Port of Flowers · as Okano

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