Chieko Higashiyama
Actor
September 30, 1890 — 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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1967 | Zoku ô-oku maruhi monogatari · as Eiho, Nun |
| 1966 | The Kii River · as Toyono, Hana's Grandmother |
| 1964 | NET Playhouse · as Narrator |
| 1964 | Miyamoto Musashi IV: Duel at Ichijyo-ji Temple · as Strange Beauty |
| 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 | |
| 1959 | The Snow Flurry · as Tomi |
| 1958 | Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion · as Umegiku |
| 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 | |
| 1955 | Haru no yo no dekigoto · as Matsu |
| 1954 | |
| 1954 | The Garden of Women · as Schoolmaster |
| 1953 | Tokyo Story · as Tomi HirayamaOn Plex |
| 1953 | Sincere Heart · as Ichi |
| 1952 | Carmen Falls in Love · as Maid |
| 1952 | The Life of Oharu · as Myokai, The Old NunOn Plex |
| 1951 | Genji monogatari · as Lady Kokiden |
| 1951 | Fireworks Over the Sea · as Mitsu |
| 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 | The Portrait · as Nomura's Wife |
| 1947 | |
| 1947 | Marriage · as Fumie's Mother |
| 1946 | The Girl I Loved · as Mother Okin |
| 1944 | |
| 1943 | Port of Flowers · as Okano |