Chieko Higashiyama
Acting • Born 1890-09-30 – Died 1980-05-08
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
84 credits
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Movie • 1967
Eiho, nun
Sweet Secret
Movie • 1971
The Idiot
Movie • 1951
Satoko, Ayako's mother
Four Seasons of Women
Movie • 1950
Mother
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
Movie • 1949
Tokyo Story
Movie • 1953
Tomi Hirayama
Early Summer
Movie • 1951
Shige Mamiya
Here's to the Young Lady
Movie • 1949
Yasuko's mother
Sincere Heart
Movie • 1953
Ichi
Reimei
Movie • 1927
Rikugun Daikoshin
Movie • 1932
The Girl I Loved
Movie • 1946
Mother Okin
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Movie • 1952
Love School
Movie • 1962
Sisters of Nishijin
Movie • 1952
The Wandering Princess
Movie • 1960
Nao Sugawara
When a Woman Loves
Movie • 1960
Relative
The Princess Sen
Movie • 1954
Wakaki sugata
Movie • 1943
Kitamura's wife
Maboroshi no Satsui
Movie • 1971
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Movie • 1958
Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
A Samurai's Love
Movie • 1954
Spring Snow
Movie • 1950
Mother Okasaki
The Doctor
Movie • 1955
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Movie • 1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Movie • 1950
Port of Flowers
Movie • 1943
Okano
An Heir's Place
Movie • 1953
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Movie • 1951
Unnamed
Mount Hakone
Movie • 1962
The Garden of Women
Movie • 1954
Schoolmaster
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Movie • 1953
Hana no yukyo-den
Movie • 1958
Fireworks Over the Sea
Movie • 1951
Mitsu
The Snow Flurry
Movie • 1959
Tomi
Spring Dreams
Movie • 1960
Grandma
Apostasy
Movie • 1948
The Portrait
Movie • 1948
Nomura's Wife
Broken Drum
Movie • 1949
Nobuko
The Angry Street
Movie • 1950
Late Night Confession
Movie • 1949
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Movie • 1962
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
Marriage
Movie • 1947
Fumie's mother
The Maid's Kid
Movie • 1955
Farewell Song
Movie • 1955
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1951
Lady Kokiden
I Saw a Phantom Fish
Movie • 1950
Shisha to no kekkon
Movie • 1960
Shishun no izumi
Movie • 1953
Retired Person
Ai Sureba Koso
Movie • 1955
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie • 1964
Strange Beauty
The Blue Sky Maiden
Movie • 1957
Shizue Hirooka
Love and Death
Movie • 1971
Sing, Young People!
Movie • 1963
Okada's grandmother
Carmen's Innocent Love
Movie • 1952
Maid
The Kii River
Movie • 1966
Toyono, Hana's grandmother
The Radish and the Carrot
Movie • 1965
Ai to chie no wa
Movie • 1956
The Most Valuable Wife
Movie • 1959
The Nun
Movie • 1958
монахиня Масамицу
Nippon no obaachan
Movie • 1962
This Year's Love
Movie • 1962
Virtue in Spades
Movie • 1956
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Movie • 1947
The Gentle Japanese
Movie • 1971
Yassamossa
Movie • 1953
Chikagai nijuyojikan
Movie • 1947
Battle Troop
Movie • 1944
Itohan Monogatari
Movie • 1957
Owasa
Ningen moyo
Movie • 1949
The Sky Is Mine
Movie • 1959
Aiyoku no sabaki
Movie • 1953
The Siege of Osaka
Movie • 1937
Yodo-dono
A Woman's Life
Movie • 1962
Shizu Tsutsumi
Women's House
Movie • 1954
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
Movie • 1954
Swords and Brocade
Movie • 1951
Ah, Youth
Movie • 1951
Ano hito wa ima
Movie • 1963
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Movie • 1954
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Chiyoda
Live Again Tomorrow
Movie • 1970
その
Oyaji Daiko
TV • 1968
Kotoshi no Koi
TV • 1967