Chieko Higashiyama
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1890-09-30
Day of Death
1980-05-08 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Chiba, Japan
Chieko Higashiyama
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.
Known For
Acting
(1971)
(1971)
(1971)
(1971)
(1967)
Shogun and His Mistress 2
as Eiho, nun
(1966)
The Kii River
as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
(1965)
(1964)
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Strange Beauty
(1963)
Sing, Young People
as Okada's grandmother
(1963)
(1962)
Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
(1962)
A Woman's Life
as Shizu Tsutsumi
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1960)
The Wandering Princess
as Nao Sugawara
(1960)
Spring Dreams
as Grandma
(1960)
(1959)
The Snow Flurry
as Tomi
(1959)
(1959)
(1959)
When a Woman Loves
as Relative
(1958)
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
as Mrs. Chiyoda
(1958)
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
(1958)
(1958)
The Nun
as монахиня Масамицу
(1957)
The Blue Sky Maiden
as Shizue Hirooka
(1957)
Itohan Monogatari
as Owasa
(1956)
(1956)
(1955)
(1955)
Ai Sureba Koso
as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
(1955)
(1955)
(1954)
The Garden of Women
as Schoolmaster
(1954)
(1954)
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1953)
Tokyo Story
as Tomi Hirayama
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
Sincere Heart
as Ichi
(1953)
Shishun no izumi
as Retired Person
(1952)
Carmen's Innocent Love
as Maid
(1952)
(1952)
(1951)
The Idiot
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
(1951)
Early Summer
as Shige Mamiya
(1951)
The Tale of Genji
as Lady Kokiden
(1951)
(1951)
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
as Unnamed
(1951)
(1951)
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Mitsu
(1950)
(1950)
(1950)
Four Seasons of Women
as Mother
(1950)
(1950)
(1950)
(1949)
(1949)
Broken Drum
as Nobuko
(1949)
(1949)
Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko's mother
(1949)
(1948)
(1948)
(1947)
(1947)
(1947)
Marriage
as Fumie's mother
(1946)
The Girl I Loved
as Mother Okin
(1944)
(1943)
Port of Flowers
as Okano
(1943)
Wakaki sugata
as Kitamura's wife
(1937)
The Siege of Osaka
as Yodo-dono
(1932)
(1927)