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.

Cast

Shogun and His Mistress 2

Satoko, Ayako's mother

Four Seasons of Women

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain

Here's to the Young Lady

Yasuko's mother

Rikugun Daikoshin

The Girl I Loved

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

Sisters of Nishijin

The Wandering Princess

When a Woman Loves

The Princess Sen

Kitamura's wife

The Loyal 47 Ronin

Otaka (Ôishi's mother)

A Samurai's Love

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

Port of Flowers

An Heir's Place

The Woman’s Reflective Pool

The Garden of Women

Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

Hana no yukyo-den

Fireworks Over the Sea

The Snow Flurry

The Angry Street

Late Night Confession

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Hama, Tokusuke's wife

The Tale of Genji

I Saw a Phantom Fish

Shisha to no kekkon

Shishun no izumi

Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple

The Blue Sky Maiden

Sing, Young People!

Okada's grandmother

Carmen's Innocent Love

Toyono, Hana's grandmother

The Radish and the Carrot

Ai to chie no wa

The Most Valuable Wife

монахиня Масамицу

Nippon no obaachan

This Year's Love

Virtue in Spades

The Love of the Actress Sumako

The Gentle Japanese

Chikagai nijuyojikan

Itohan Monogatari

The Sky Is Mine

Aiyoku no sabaki

The Siege of Osaka

The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness

Swords and Brocade

Ano hito wa ima

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Yukichi's Mother Ojun

Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

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