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
- Ano hito wa ima
- Sing, Young People! as Okada's grandmother
1962
- Diary of a Mad Old Man as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
- Love School
- Mount Hakone
- Nippon no obaachan
- This Year's Love
- A Woman's Life as Shizu Tsutsumi
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)
- 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
- In Case of One Woman as Natsuko Hashiba
- Virtue in Spades
- Ai to chie no wa
- Here It is Quiet
1955
- The Maid's Kid
- Miss Teacher
- If Indeed One Loves as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
- Farewell Song
- The Doctor
1954
- A Samurai's Love
- The Princess Sen
- The Garden of Women as Schoolmaster
- Women's House
- How the Bell of Liberty Rings as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
- The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
1953
- Tokyo Story as Tomi Hirayama
- An Heir's Place
- Sincere Heart as Ichi
- Aiyoku no sabaki
- Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
- Shishun no izumi as Retired Person
- Yassamossa
1951
- Early Summer as Shige Mamiya
- The Idiot as Satoko, Ayako's mother
- Swords and Brocade
- Fireworks Over the Sea as Mitsu
- Ah, Youth
- The Tale of Genji as Lady Kokiden
- The Woman’s Reflective Pool as Unnamed
1950
1949
- The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
- Broken Drum as Nobuko
- Here's to the Young Lady as Yasuko's mother
- Late Night Confession
- Ningen moyo
1948
- Apostasy
- The Portrait as Nomura's Wife
1947
- Marriage as Fumie's mother
- The Love of the Actress Sumako
- 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