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
1970
- Live Again Tomorrow as その
1968
1967
- Kotoshi no Koi
- Shogun and His Mistress 2 as Eiho, nun
1966
- The Kii River as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
1964
- Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Strange Beauty
1963
- Sing, Young People! as Okada's grandmother
- Ano hito wa ima
1962
- A Woman's Life as Shizu Tsutsumi
- Love School
- This Year's Love
- Diary of a Mad Old Man as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
- Mount Hakone
- 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
- The Nun as монахиня Масамицу
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Mrs. Chiyoda
1957
- The Blue Sky Maiden as Shizue Hirooka
- Itohan Monogatari as Owasa
1956
- Ai to chie no wa
- In Case of One Woman as Natsuko Hashiba
- Virtue in Spades
- Here It is Quiet
1955
- The Maid's Kid
- If Indeed One Loves as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
- School Girls in Costume
- Miss Teacher
- Floating Weeds Diary as Backstage Attendant
- Farewell Song
- The Doctor
1954
- A Samurai's Love
- The Princess Sen
- The Second Kiss
- The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
- Women's House
- How the Bell of Liberty Rings as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
- The Garden of Women as Schoolmaster
1953
- Tokyo Story as Tomi Hirayama
- An Heir's Place
- Shishun no izumi as Retired Person
- Sincere Heart as Ichi
- Aiyoku no sabaki
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
- Yassamossa
1952
1951
- The Idiot as Satoko, Ayako's mother
- Early Summer as Shige Mamiya
- Swords and Brocade
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Mitsu
- The Tale of Genji as Lady Kokiden
- The Woman’s Reflective Pool as Unnamed
- Ah, Youth
1950
1949
- The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
- Broken Drum as Nobuko
- Late Night Confession
- Here's to the Young Lady as Yasuko's mother
- Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
- Ningen moyo
1948
- Apostasy
- The Portrait as Nomura's Wife
1947
- Chikagai nijuyojikan
- The Love of the Actress Sumako
- Futari de miru hoshi
- Marriage as Fumie's mother
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