Chieko Higashiyama
Actor
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 directors' poll.
Filmography
Early Summer
as Shige Mamiya 1951
The Idiot
as Satoko, Ayako's mother 1951
The Blue Sky Maiden
as Shizue Hirooka 1957
Carmen's Innocent Love
as Maid 1952
Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko's mother 1949
Port of Flowers
as Okano 1943
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
as Strange Beauty 1964
Sincere Heart
as Ichi 1953
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother) 1958
The Garden of Women
as Schoolmaster 1954
The Snow Flurry
as Tomi 1959
The Wandering Princess
as Nao Sugawara 1960
Spring Dreams
as Grandma 1960
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Mitsu 1951
Broken Drum
as Nobuko 1949
The Angry Street
1950