Eiko Miyoshi
Born: 1894-04-08 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1963-07-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1959
- Goodbye, Hello as Watanabe's mother
- The Beast Shall Die
- Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- Samurai Saga as Okuni
- A Whistle in My Heart
- Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
- Good Morning as Mitsue Haraguchi
- Fox and Raccoon as Landlady Matsu from Gondola
1958
- The Hidden Fortress as Maid (uncredited)
- Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
- Firefly Light
- The Days of Evil Women
- Holiday in Tokyo
- The Third President
- A Boy and Three Mothers as Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
- Assistant President
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- Who Is the Informer? as Tassel
1957
- Throne of Blood as Old Woman at castle
- Tokyo Twilight as Midwife
- Black River
- The Lower Depths as Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
- The Shadow Daughter
- Snow Country as Teacher
- A Case of Honor
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- Jigoku bana
- The Oil-Hell Murder
- A Town with a Mountain and River as Tamako Sugawara
1956
- Street of Shame as Kadowaki Saku
- Engagement Ring as Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
- A Wife's Heart
- Shozo, a Cat and Two Women as Mrs. Shiokawa
- Jacks and Jills as Old maid
- The President's Boss
- The President Talks Bank
- 女大学野球狂時代
- Blue Buds as Female teacher
- Fighting Cha Cha Girl as Tane Grandma
1955
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Osugi
- I Live in Fear as Toyo Nakajima
- The Big Ambition as Kiyo
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Ayuta's grandmother
- Love Never Fails
- Marital Relations
- The Rookie Managers
1954
1953
- Where Chimneys Are Seen as Ranko
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The old wife
- Bot-chan as Mrs. Hagino
- Sunflower Girl
- Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
- Youth of Heiji Senigata as Tomé
- Escape Zone
- White Fish as Nan
- First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband as Mrs. Hatoko
- Mr. Pu
- Husband and Wife
- Omatsuri hanjiro
- Their Father's Wife as Otatsu
1952
- Ikiru as Housewife
- Carmen's Innocent Love as Kumako Satake
- Mother as Grandmother
- Okuni and Gohei as Mother
- Forbidden Path
- Third Class Executives
- Sword for Hire
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- The Skin of the South as Old lady Onodera
1951
- The Idiot as Madame Kayama
- Boyhood
- Who Knows a Woman's Heart
- Elegy
- Clothes of Deception
- The Blue Pearl as Noe's aunt
1950
- Escape from Prison as Shinkichi's mother
1949
- Stray Dog as Harumi's mother
1946
- No Regrets for Our Youth as Madame Yagihara
1941
- Notes of an Itinerant Performer as Otane