Chieko Higashiyama
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.
Acting
Movie
Tokyo Story
as Tomi Hirayama
1953
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Early Summer
as Shige Mamiya
1951
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The Idiot
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
1951
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The Blue Sky Maiden
as Shizue Hirooka
1957
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Carmen's Innocent Love
as Maid
1952
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Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko's mother
1949
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Port of Flowers
as Okano
1943
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
as Strange Beauty
1964
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Sincere Heart
as Ichi
1953
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
1958
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The Garden of Women
as Schoolmaster
1954
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The Snow Flurry
as Tomi
1959
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The Wandering Princess
as Nao Sugawara
1960
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Spring Dreams
as Grandma
1960
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as Mitsu
1951
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Broken Drum
as Nobuko
1949
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The Angry Street
1950
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The Tale of Genji
as Lady Kokiden
1951
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The Girl I Loved
as Mother Okin
1946
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Apostasy
1948
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The Portrait
as Nomura's Wife
1948
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
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Sing, Young People!
as Okada's grandmother
1963
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The Most Valuable Wife
1959