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
- This Year's Love
- A Woman's Life as Shizu Tsutsumi
- Diary of a Mad Old Man as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
- Nippon no obaachan
- Mount Hakone
- Love School
1960
- Spring Dreams as Grandma
- The Wandering Princess as Nao Sugawara
- Shisha to no kekkon
- When a Woman Loves as Relative
1959
1958
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
- Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring as Mrs. Chiyoda
- Hana no yukyo-den
- The Nun as монахиня Масамицу
1957
- The Blue Sky Maiden as Shizue Hirooka
- Itohan Monogatari as Owasa
1956
- Virtue in Spades
- In Case of One Woman as Natsuko Hashiba
- Ai to chie no wa
- Here It is Quiet
1955
- The Maid's Kid
- If Indeed One Loves as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
- The Doctor
- Farewell Song
1954
- How the Bell of Liberty Rings as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
- Women's House
- The Garden of Women as Schoolmaster
- The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
- The Princess Sen
- A Samurai's Love
1953
- Tokyo Story as Tomi Hirayama
- Aiyoku no sabaki
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
- Yassamossa
- Sincere Heart as Ichi
- Shishun no izumi as Retired Person
- An Heir's Place
1951
- The Idiot as Satoko, Ayako's mother
- Early Summer as Shige Mamiya
- The Tale of Genji as Lady Kokiden
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Mitsu
- The Woman’s Reflective Pool as Unnamed
- Swords and Brocade
- Ah, Youth
1950
1949
- Broken Drum as Nobuko
- Ningen moyo
- Here's to the Young Lady as Yasuko's mother
- Late Night Confession
- The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
1948
- Apostasy
- The Portrait as Nomura's Wife
1947
- The Love of the Actress Sumako
- Chikagai nijuyojikan
- 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