Eiko Miyoshi
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, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Heinosuke Gosho, Kon Ichikawa, and Shirō Toyoda. She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Acting
Movie
Ikiru
as Housewife
1952
Movie
Throne of Blood
as Old Woman at castle
1957
Movie
The Hidden Fortress
as Maid (uncredited)
1958
Movie
Stray Dog
as Harumi's mother
1949
Movie
Good Morning
as Mitsue Haraguchi
1959
Movie
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Osugi
1954
Movie
Tokyo Twilight
as Midwife
1957
Movie
Street of Shame
as Kadowaki Saku
1956
Movie
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Osugi
1955
Movie
The Lower Depths
as Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
1957
Movie
The Idiot
as Madame Kayama
1951
Movie
I Live in Fear
as Toyo Nakajima
1955
Movie
No Regrets for Our Youth
as Madame Yagihara
1946
Movie
Black River
1957
Movie
Mother
as Grandmother
1952
Movie
Samurai Saga
as Okuni
1959
Movie
Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Ranko
1953
Movie
Carmen's Innocent Love
as Kumako Satake
1952
Movie
An Inn at Osaka
1954
Movie
Boyhood
1951
Movie
A Wife's Heart
1956
Movie
Okuni and Gohei
as Mother
1952
Movie
Snow Country
as Teacher
1957
Movie
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as Mrs. Shiokawa
1956