Chieko Higashiyama

Personal Info

Birthday

September 30, 1890

Day of Death

1980-05-08

(89 years old)

Place of Birth

Chiba, Japan

Also Known As

Sen Watanabe

Chieko Higashiyama

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.

Known For

Tokyo Story

The Idiot

Early Summer

The Snow Flurry

The Blue Sky Maiden

Sing, Young People

The Wandering Princess

The Garden of Women

Filmography

1967
Shogun and His Mistress 2
as Eiho, nun
1966
The Kii River
as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
1964
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Strange Beauty
1963
Sing, Young People
as Okada's grandmother
1962
A Woman's Life
as Shizu Tsutsumi
Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
1960
The Wandering Princess
as Nao Sugawara
Spring Dreams
as Grandma
When a Woman Loves
as Relative
1959
The Snow Flurry
as Tomi
1958
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
as Mrs. Chiyoda
The Nun
as монахиня Масамицу
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
1957
The Blue Sky Maiden
as Shizue Hirooka
Itohan Monogatari
as Owasa
1955
Ai Sureba Koso
as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
1954
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
The Garden of Women
as Schoolmaster
1953
Tokyo Story
as Tomi Hirayama
Shishun no izumi
as Retired Person
Sincere Heart
as Ichi
1952
Carmen's Innocent Love
as Maid
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
as Mitsu
Early Summer
as Shige Mamiya
The Tale of Genji
as Lady Kokiden
The Idiot
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
as Unnamed
1950
Four Seasons of Women
as Mother
1949
Broken Drum
as Nobuko
Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko's mother
1947
Marriage
as Fumie's mother
1946
The Girl I Loved
as Mother Okin
1943
Wakaki sugata
as Kitamura's wife
Port of Flowers
as Okano
1937
The Siege of Osaka
as Yodo-dono