Eiko Miyoshi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1894-04-08
Day of Death
1963-07-28 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Eiko Miyoshi
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.
Acting
(1959)
Good Morning
as Mitsue Haraguchi
(1959)
(1959)
(1959)
Samurai Saga
as Okuni
(1959)
(1959)
(1959)
Fox and Raccoon
as Landlady Matsu from Gondola
(1958)
The Hidden Fortress
as Maid (uncredited)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
A Boy and Three Mothers
as Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
Who Is the Informer?
as Tassel
(1958)
(1957)
Throne of Blood
as Old Woman at castle
(1957)
Tokyo Twilight
as Midwife
(1957)
The Lower Depths
as Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
(1957)
Snow Country
as Teacher
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1957)
(1956)
Street of Shame
as Kadowaki Saku
(1956)
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as Mrs. Shiokawa
(1956)
(1956)
(1956)
Jacks and Jills
as Old maid
(1956)
(1956)
(1955)
I Live in Fear
as Toyo Nakajima
(1955)
(1955)
(1955)
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Ayuta's grandmother
(1955)
(1955)
The Big Ambition
as Kiyo
(1955)
(1954)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Osugi
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
12 Chapters About Women
as Go Hamako
(1954)
(1953)
(1953)
My Wonderful Yellow Car
as The old wife
(1953)
(1953)
Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Ranko
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
Bot-chan
as Mrs. Hagino
(1953)
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
as Mrs. Hatoko
(1953)
White Fish
as Nan
(1953)
(1953)
Youth of Heiji Senigata
as Tomé
(1953)
Their Father's Wife
as Otatsu
(1952)
Ikiru
as Housewife
(1952)
Mother
as Grandmother
(1952)
(1952)
Okuni and Gohei
as Mother
(1952)
Carmen's Innocent Love
as Kumako Satake
(1952)
(1952)
The Skin of the South
as Old lady Onodera
(1952)
(1952)
(1951)
The Idiot
as Madame Kayama
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
The Blue Pearl
as Noe's aunt
(1951)
(1950)
Escape from Prison
as Shinkichi's mother
(1949)
Stray Dog
as Harumi's mother
(1946)
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Yagihara
(1941)
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
as Otane