Chieko Higashiyama
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Tokyo Story
Tomi Hirayama
1953
Series
Oyaji Daiko
1968
Film
The Idiot
Satoko, Ayako's mother
1951
Film
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
1949
Film
An Heir's Place
1953
Film
Maboroshi no Satsui
1971
Film
The Blue Sky Maiden
Shizue Hirooka
1957
Film
When a Woman Loves
Relative
1960
A Samurai's Love
1954
Film
Ai to chie no wa
1956
Film
Love School
1962
Film
Early Summer
Shige Mamiya
1951
Futari de miru hoshi
1947
Film
I Saw a Phantom Fish
1950
Series
Kotoshi no Koi
1967
Film
The Most Valuable Wife
1959
Film
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
1958
Film
The Nun
монахиня Масамицу
1958
Film
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
1962
Rikugun Daikoshin
1932
Film
The Snow Flurry
Tomi
1959
Film
Swords and Brocade
1951
Film
Spring Dreams
Grandma
1960
Film
The Wandering Princess
Nao Sugawara
1960
Film
Battle Troop
1944
Film
Live Again Tomorrow
その
1970
Film
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Eiho, nun
1967
Film
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Strange Beauty
1964
Film
Mount Hakone
1962
Film
The Princess Sen
1954
Film
The Tale of Genji
Lady Kokiden
1951
Film
The Portrait
Nomura's Wife
1948
Film
The Maid's Kid
1955
Film
If Indeed One Loves
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
1955
In Case of One Woman
Natsuko Hashiba
1956
Film
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Film
Sing, Young People!
Okada's grandmother
1963
Film
Ano hito wa ima
1963
Film
Port of Flowers
Okano
1943
Film
Sincere Heart
Ichi
1953
Film
Virtue in Spades
1956
Film
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
1954
Film
This Year's Love
1962
Film
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
Film
Broken Drum
Nobuko
1949
Film
The Garden of Women
Schoolmaster
1954
Film
Here It is Quiet
1956
Film
Hana no yukyo-den
1958
Film
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Mrs. Chiyoda
1958
Film
A Woman's Life
Shizu Tsutsumi
1962
Film
Itohan Monogatari
Owasa
1957
Film
The Angry Street
1950
Film
Yassamossa
1953
Film
Miss Teacher
1955
Film
Fireworks Over the Sea
Mitsu
1951
Film
Love and Death
1971
Film
The Second Kiss
1954
Film
Apostasy
1948
Farewell Song
1955
Film
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Film
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Unnamed
1951
Film
Carmen's Innocent Love
Maid
1952
Film
Floating Weeds Diary
Backstage Attendant
1955
Film
Ah, Youth
1951
Film
School Girls in Costume
1955
Chikagai nijuyojikan
1947
Film
The Sky Is Mine
1959
Film
Sweet Secret
1971
Film
The Kii River
Toyono, Hana's grandmother
1966
Film
Rain on Jogashima
1950
Film
Four Seasons of Women
Mother
1950
Film
Spring Snow
Mother Okasaki
1950
Film
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Film
Women's House
1954
Film
Shisha to no kekkon
1960
Film
The End of the War
1950
Film
The Girl I Loved
Mother Okin
1946
Film
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Film
Marriage
Fumie's mother
1947
Film
Wakaki sugata
Kitamura's wife
1943
Film
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
1954
Film
Shishun no izumi
Retired Person
1953
Film
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Film
Here's to the Young Lady
Yasuko's mother
1949
Film
Ningen moyo
1949
Film
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952
Late Night Confession
1949
Film
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949
Film
The Doctor
1955
Film
The Siege of Osaka
Yodo-dono
1937
Film
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1953
Film
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953
Film
The Gentle Japanese
1971
Reimei
1927
Film
Kanojo no tokudane
1952