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