Chieko Higashiyama
Born: 1890-09-30 in Chiba, Japan
Died: 1980-05-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
1968
1967
- Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Eiho, nun
- Kotoshi no Koi
1966
- The Kii River as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
1964
- Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple as Strange Beauty
1963
- Ano hito wa ima
- Sing, Young People! as Okada's grandmother
1962
- This Year's Love
- Love School
- Mount Hakone
- Diary of a Mad Old Man as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
- A Woman's Life as Shizu Tsutsumi
- Nippon no obaachan
1960
- The Wandering Princess as Nao Sugawara
- Spring Dreams as Grandma
- When a Woman Loves as Relative
- Shisha to no kekkon
1959
1958
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
- Hana no yukyo-den
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Mrs. Chiyoda
- The Nun as монахиня Масамицу
1957
- The Blue Sky Maiden as Shizue Hirooka
- Itohan Monogatari as Owasa
1955
- Ai Sureba Koso as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
- The Maid's Kid
- Farewell Song
- The Doctor
1954
- The Garden of Women as Schoolmaster
- The Princess Sen
- Women's House
- How the Bell of Liberty Rings as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
- The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
- A Samurai's Love
1953
- Tokyo Story as Tomi Hirayama
- Sincere Heart as Ichi
- Aiyoku no sabaki
- Shishun no izumi as Retired Person
- Yassamossa
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
- An Heir's Place
1951
- The Idiot as Satoko, Ayako's mother
- Early Summer as Shige Mamiya
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Mitsu
- The Woman’s Reflective Pool as Unnamed
- Ah, Youth
- The Tale of Genji as Lady Kokiden
- Swords and Brocade
1950
1949
- Here's to the Young Lady as Yasuko's mother
- Late Night Confession
- Broken Drum as Nobuko
- The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
- Ningen moyo
1948
1947
- The Love of the Actress Sumako
- Marriage as Fumie's mother
- Chikagai nijuyojikan
1946
- The Girl I Loved as Mother Okin
1944
1943
- Port of Flowers as Okano
- Wakaki sugata as Kitamura's wife
1937
- The Siege of Osaka as Yodo-dono