Chieko Higashiyama

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1890-09-30 (90 years old)

Deathday

1980-05-08

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 directo...

Acting

1951

The Idiot

as Satoko, Ayako's mother

1953

Tokyo Story

as Tomi Hirayama

1951

Early Summer

as Shige Mamiya

1949

Here's to the Young Lady

as Yasuko's mother

1953

1927

1946

The Girl I Loved

as Mother Okin

1960

The Wandering Princess

as Nao Sugawara

1959

1943

Wakaki sugata

as Kitamura's wife

1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin

as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)

1943

1954

The Garden of Women

as Schoolmaster

1959

1960

Spring Dreams

as Grandma

1949

Broken Drum

as Nobuko

1962

Diary of a Mad Old Man

as Hama, Tokusuke's wife

1947

Marriage

as Fumie's mother

1951

The Tale of Genji

as Lady Kokiden

1953

Shishun no izumi

as Retired Person

1955

Ai Sureba Koso

as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)

1957

The Blue Sky Maiden

as Shizue Hirooka

1963

Sing, Young People

as Okada's grandmother

1966

The Kii River

as Toyono, Hana's grandmother

1958

The Nun

as монахиня Масамицу

1957

1937

The Siege of Osaka

as Yodo-dono

1962

A Woman's Life

as Shizu Tsutsumi

1954

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

as Yukichi's Mother Ojun

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