Eiko Miyoshi
Acting • Born 1894-04-08 – Died 1963-07-28
Biography
Eiko Miyoshi ( April 8, 1894 – July 28, 1963 ) was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo . Her husband was the film producer Nobuyoshi Morita . She appeared in many Toho films, including those directed by Akira Kurosawa . Her birth name was Haru Miyata, and her real name after marriage was Haru Morita. After the Second World War , she entered the film industry at the request of director Akira Kurosawa . In 1946 , at the age of 52, she made her first film appearance in Kurosawa's first postwar film, No Regrets for My Youth. From then on, through the 1950s, she was cast in a succession of films by Japan's leading directors, including Kurosawa's , Kinoshita Keisuke , Naruse Mikio , Ozu Yasujiro , Mizoguchi Kenji , Gosho Heinosuke , Ichikawa Kon, and Toyoda Shiro . She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Filmography
86 credits
The Hidden Fortress
Movie • 1958
Maid (uncredited)
Stray Dog
Movie • 1949
Harumi's mother
Escape Zone
Movie • 1953
I Live in Fear
Movie • 1955
Toyo Nakajima
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Movie • 1954
Osugi
The Idiot
Movie • 1951
Madame Kayama
The Lower Depths
Movie • 1957
Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
Good Morning
Movie • 1959
Mitsue Haraguchi
No Regrets for Our Youth
Movie • 1946
Madame Yagihara
White Fish
Movie • 1953
Nan
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Hatoko
The President Talks Bank
Movie • 1956
Samurai Saga
Movie • 1959
Okuni
Omatsuri hanjiro
Movie • 1953
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Movie • 1958
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Movie • 1951
Assistant President
Movie • 1958
Clothes of Deception
Movie • 1951
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Movie • 1955
Ayuta's grandmother
Holiday in Tokyo
Movie • 1958
A Boy and Three Mothers
Movie • 1958
Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
The President's Boss
Movie • 1956
Jigoku bana
Movie • 1957
The Blue Pearl
Movie • 1951
Noe's aunt
Third Class Executives
Movie • 1952
Escape from Prison
Movie • 1950
Shinkichi's mother
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Housewife
Throne of Blood
Movie • 1957
Old Woman at castle
Mother
Movie • 1952
Grandmother
A Wife's Heart
Movie • 1956
An Inn at Osaka
Movie • 1954
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Movie • 1953
Ranko
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Movie • 1941
Otane
Bot-chan
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Hagino
Firefly Light
Movie • 1958
女大学野球狂時代
Movie • 1956
Okuni and Gohei
Movie • 1952
Mother
A Whistle in My Heart
Movie • 1959
Mr. Pu
Movie • 1953
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Movie • 1956
Mrs. Shiokawa
Marital Relations
Movie • 1955
Snow Country
Movie • 1957
Teacher
Sword for Hire
Movie • 1952
Black River
Movie • 1957
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Movie • 1955
Osugi
Carmen's Innocent Love
Movie • 1952
Kumako Satake
The Unbalanced Wheel
Movie • 1957
The Cock Crows Twice
Movie • 1954
The Days of Evil Women
Movie • 1958
The Skin of the South
Movie • 1952
Old lady Onodera
The Beast Shall Die
Movie • 1959
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Movie • 1952
Husband and Wife
Movie • 1953
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Movie • 1953
Tokyo Twilight
Movie • 1957
Midwife
A Case of Honor
Movie • 1957
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Movie • 1954
Boyhood
Movie • 1951
The Big Ambition
Movie • 1955
Kiyo
Jacks and Jills
Movie • 1956
Old maid
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Movie • 1953
The old wife
Their Father's Wife
Movie • 1953
Otatsu
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Movie • 1953
Tomé
Love Never Fails
Movie • 1955
Forbidden Path
Movie • 1952
Sunflower Girl
Movie • 1953
Elegy
Movie • 1951
The Third President
Movie • 1958
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Movie • 1959
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
Movie • 1959
Street of Shame
Movie • 1956
Kadowaki Saku
The Rookie Managers
Movie • 1955
Who Is the Informer?
Movie • 1958
Tassel
Five Sisters
Movie • 1954
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Movie • 1954
aunt
12 Chapters About Women
Movie • 1954
Go Hamako
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Movie • 1958
The Shadow Daughter
Movie • 1957
Fox and Raccoon
Movie • 1959
Landlady Matsu from Gondola
A Town with a Mountain and River
Movie • 1957
Tamako Sugawara
The Oil-Hell Murder
Movie • 1957
Goodbye, Hello
Movie • 1959
Watanabe's mother
Fighting Cha Cha Girl
Movie • 1956
Tane Grandma
Blue Buds
Movie • 1956
Female teacher
Engagement Ring
Movie • 1956
Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
The Prodigal Son
Movie • 1964
His Mother