Eiko Miyoshi
Born: 1894-04-08 in Tokyo, Japon
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, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Heinosuke Gosho, Kon Ichikawa, and Shirō Toyoda. She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Filmography
1964
- The Prodigal Son as His Mother
1959
- Good Morning as Mitsue Haraguchi
- The Beast Shall Die
- Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- A Whistle in My Heart
- Goodbye, Hello as Watanabe's mother
- Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- Samurai Saga as Okuni
- Fox and Raccoon as Landlady Matsu from Gondola
1958
- The Hidden Fortress as Maid (uncredited)
- Holiday in Tokyo
- Firefly Light
- Who Is the Informer? as Tassel
- Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
- Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- The Third President
- Assistant President
- A Boy and Three Mothers as Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
- The Days of Evil Women
1957
- Throne of Blood as Old Woman at castle
- The Lower Depths as Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
- Tokyo Twilight as Midwife
- Snow Country as Teacher
- Black River
- Jigoku bana
- The Shadow Daughter
- A Case of Honor
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- A Town with a Mountain and River as Tamako Sugawara
- The Oil-Hell Murder
- The Men of Toho-ku as old woman
- The Chieko Story as Kei
- Story of a Detective's Assistant as Shizu, Heikurō's mother
- Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
1956
- Street of Shame as Kadowaki Saku
- A Wife's Heart
- The President's Boss
- Shozo, a Cat and Two Women as Mrs. Shiokawa
- Jacks and Jills as Old maid
- The President Talks Bank
- Fighting Cha Cha Girl as Tane Grandma
- Blue Buds as Female teacher
- Engagement Ring as Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
- 女大学野球狂時代
- The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
- Beyond The Stars as Yone
1955
- I Live in Fear as Toyo Nakajima
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Osugi
- Marital Relations
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Ayuta's grandmother
- The Big Ambition as Kiyo
- The Rookie Managers
- Love Never Fails
- Bride in the Kitchen
1954
1953
- Sunflower Girl
- Husband and Wife
- Mr. Pu
- Youth of Heiji Senigata as Tomé
- Where Chimneys Are Seen as Ranko
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The old wife
- Omatsuri hanjiro
- Their Father's Wife as Otatsu
- Escape Zone
- Bot-chan as Mrs. Hagino
- First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband as Mrs. Hatoko
- Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
- White Fish as Nan
- Moth Lamp
1952
- Ikiru as Housewife
- Mother as Grandmother
- Sword for Hire
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- The Skin of the South as Old lady Onodera
- Forbidden Path
- Okuni and Gohei as Mother
- Carmen's Innocent Love as Kumako Satake
- Third Class Executives
1951
- The Idiot as Madame Kayama
- Elegy
- The Blue Pearl as Noe's aunt
- Clothes of Deception
- Boyhood
- Who Knows a Woman's Heart
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