Chieko Higashiyama
Actor
Born September 30, 1890 in Chiba, Japan
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
Sweet Secret
Love and Death
Maboroshi no Satsui
The Gentle Japanese
Live Again Tomorrow
その
Oyaji Daiko
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Eiho, nun
Kotoshi no Koi
The Kii River
Toyono, Hana's grandmother
The Radish and the Carrot
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Strange Beauty
Ano hito wa ima
Sing, Young People!
Okada's grandmother
A Woman's Life
Shizu Tsutsumi
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
Mount Hakone
Love School
This Year's Love
Nippon no obaachan
Shisha to no kekkon
The Wandering Princess
Nao Sugawara
When a Woman Loves
Relative
Spring Dreams
Grandma
The Sky Is Mine
The Most Valuable Wife
The Snow Flurry
Tomi
Hana no yukyo-den
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Mrs. Chiyoda
The Nun
монахиня Масамицу
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
The Blue Sky Maiden
Shizue Hirooka
Itohan Monogatari
Owasa
Here It is Quiet
Virtue in Spades
Ai to chie no wa
The Doctor
If Indeed One Loves
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
The Maid's Kid
Miss Teacher
Women's House
The Princess Sen
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
The Garden of Women
Schoolmaster
Tokyo Story
Tomi Hirayama
Shishun no izumi
Retired Person
An Heir's Place
Aiyoku no sabaki
Yassamossa
Sincere Heart
Ichi
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Carmen's Innocent Love
Maid
Sisters of Nishijin
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Fireworks Over the Sea
Mitsu
Early Summer
Shige Mamiya
Swords and Brocade
Ah, Youth
The Tale of Genji
Lady Kokiden
The Idiot
Satoko, Ayako's mother
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Unnamed
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
The Angry Street
I Saw a Phantom Fish
Four Seasons of Women
Mother
Spring Snow
Mother Okasaki
Broken Drum
Nobuko
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
Ningen moyo
Here's to the Young Lady
Yasuko's mother
Apostasy
The Portrait
Nomura's Wife
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Marriage
Fumie's mother
The Girl I Loved
Mother Okin
Battle Troop
Wakaki sugata
Kitamura's wife
Port of Flowers
Okano
The Siege of Osaka
Yodo-dono