Eiko Miyoshi
Actor
Born April 8, 1894 in Tokyo, Japon
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, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Heinosuke Gosho, Kon Ichikawa, and Shirō Toyoda. She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Filmography
The Beast Shall Die
Good Morning
Mitsue Haraguchi
Samurai Saga
Okuni
Fox and Raccoon
Landlady Matsu from Gondola
A Whistle in My Heart
Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Goodbye, Hello
Watanabe's mother
The Hidden Fortress
Maid (uncredited)
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
The Days of Evil Women
Who Is the Informer?
Tassel
Holiday in Tokyo
Firefly Light
The Third President
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
A Boy and Three Mothers
Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
Assistant President
The Unbalanced Wheel
The Oil-Hell Murder
Black River
The Lower Depths
Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
The Men of Toho-ku
old woman
Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
The Chieko Story
Kei
Jigoku bana
The Shadow Daughter
Turtledove
Snow Country
Teacher
Tokyo Twilight
Midwife
Story of a Detective's Assistant
Shizu, Heikurō's mother
A Case of Honor
A Town with a Mountain and River
Tamako Sugawara
Throne of Blood
Old Woman at castle
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
Engagement Ring
Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Mrs. Shiokawa
Jacks and Jills
Old maid
Fighting Cha Cha Girl
Tane Grandma
A Wife's Heart
Blue Buds
Female teacher
The President Talks Bank
Street of Shame
Kadowaki Saku
Beyond The Stars
Yone
The President's Boss
I Live in Fear
Toyo Nakajima
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Ayuta's grandmother
Marital Relations
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Osugi
The Rookie Managers
Love Never Fails
The Big Ambition
Kiyo
The Cock Crows Twice
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
12 Chapters About Women
Go Hamako
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Osugi
Five Sisters
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
aunt
An Inn at Osaka
Omatsuri hanjiro
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Mrs. Hatoko
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Tomé
White Fish
Nan
Moth Lamp
Bot-chan
Mrs. Hagino
Their Father's Wife
Otatsu
Mr. Pu
Sunflower Girl
Escape Zone
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Ranko
Husband and Wife
My Wonderful Yellow Car
The old wife
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Carmen's Innocent Love
Kumako Satake
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Ikiru
Housewife
Forbidden Path
Mother
Grandmother
Third Class Executives
Sword for Hire
Okuni and Gohei
Mother
The Skin of the South
Old lady Onodera
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
The Blue Pearl
Noe's aunt
The Idiot
Madame Kayama
Boyhood
Elegy
Clothes of Deception
Escape from Prison
Shinkichi's mother
Stray Dog
Harumi's mother
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Yagihara
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Otane