Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1890-09-30 (90 years old)
Deathday
1980-05-08
Place of Birth
Chiba, Japan
Also known As
Sen Watanabe
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...
1967
as Eiho, nun
1971
1951
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
1950
as Mother
1953
as Tomi Hirayama
1951
as Shige Mamiya
1949
as Yasuko's mother
1953
as Ichi
1927
1946
as Mother Okin
1962
1960
as Nao Sugawara
1959
as Relative
1954
1943
as Kitamura's wife
1971
1958
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
1954
1950
1955
1943
as Okano
1953
1951
as Unnamed
1962
1954
as Schoolmaster
1951
as Mitsu
1959
as Tomi
1960
as Grandma
1948
1948
1949
as Nobuko
1950
1962
as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
1947
as Fumie's mother
1955
1955
1951
as Lady Kokiden
1953
as Retired Person
1955
as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
1964
as Strange Beauty
1957
as Shizue Hirooka
1971
1963
as Okada's grandmother
1952
as Maid
1966
as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
1956
1958
as монахиня Масамицу
1962
1956
1953
1944
1957
as Owasa
1949
1959
1953
1937
as Yodo-dono
1962
as Shizu Tsutsumi
1954
1951
1963
1954
as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
1958
as Mrs. Chiyoda
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