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Eiko Miyoshi

Actor
Born April 8, 1894Died July 28, 1963 (69 years)
Eiko Miyoshi ( April 8, 1894 – July 28, 1963 ) was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo . Her husband was the film producer Nobuyoshi Morita . She appeared in many Toho films, including those directed by Akira Kurosawa . Her birth name was Haru Miyata, and her real name after marriage was Haru Morita.

After the Second World War , she entered the film industry at the request of director Akira Kurosawa . In 1946 , at the age of 52, she made her first film appearance in Kurosawa's first postwar film, No Regrets for My Youth. From then on, through the 1950s, she was cast in a succession of films by Japan's leading directors, including Kurosawa's , Kinoshita Keisuke , Naruse Mikio , Ozu Yasujiro , Mizoguchi Kenji , Gosho Heinosuke , Ichikawa Kon, and Toyoda Shiro . She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Throne of Blood
  • Stray Dog
  • Good Morning
  • Tokyo Twilight
  • Street of Shame
  • No Regrets for Our Youth

Known For

  • Stray Dog
  • The Hidden Fortress
  • Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
  • I Live in Fear
  • No Regrets for Our Youth
  • Mother
  • Samurai Saga
  • Carmen Falls in Love
  • Where Chimneys Are Seen
  • Marital Relations
  • A Wife's Heart
  • Somewhere Under the Broad Sky
  • Mr. Pu
  • The Beast Shall Die
  • Boyhood
  • Jirochô sangokushi: Jirochô hatsutabi
  • Onna goroshi abura jigoku
  • Hesokuri shachô
  • Shachô sandaiki

Filmography

1959
1959
Good Morning · as Mitsue Haraguchi
1959
Samurai Saga · as Okuni
1959
1959
1959
1959
1958
The Hidden Fortress · as Maid (uncredited)
1958
1958
1957
1957
1957
The Lower Depths · as Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
1957
1957
Snow Country · as Teacher
1957
Throne of Blood · as Old Woman At Castle
1956
A Cat and Two Women · as Mrs. Shiokawa
1956
1956
Street of Shame · as Kadowaki Saku
1956
1955
I Live in Fear · as Toyo Nakajima
1955
1955
1954
1954
1954
1953
1953
1953
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car · as The Old Wife
1953
1952
Carmen Falls in Love · as Kumako Satake
1952
Ikiru · as Housewife
1952
Mother · as Grandmother
1952
1952
Okuni and Gohei · as Mother
1951
The Idiot · as Madame Kayama
1951
1951
1949
Stray Dog · as Harumi's Mother
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth · as Madame Yagihara
1941

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