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Chieko Higashiyama

Acting Born Sep 30, 1890 Chiba, Japan 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Tokyo Story

as Tomi Hirayama
Film

The Wandering Princess

as Nao Sugawara

Futarikko

1996

Almost Home

as Maid

Full filmography

  • Tokyo Story (1953) as Tomi Hirayama
  • Oyaji Daiko (1968)
  • The Idiot (1951) as Satoko, Ayako's mother
  • Early Summer (1951) as Shige Mamiya
  • The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) as Shizue Hirooka
  • The Snow Flurry (1959) as Tomi
  • The Kii River (1966) as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
  • Apostasy (1948)
  • The Wandering Princess (1960) as Nao Sugawara
  • The Radish and the Carrot (1965)
  • Kotoshi no Koi (1967)
  • Sing, Young People! (1963) as Okada's grandmother
  • The Most Valuable Wife (1959)
  • The Love of the Actress Sumako (1947)
  • Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple (1964) as Strange Beauty
  • Spring Dreams (1960) as Grandma
  • If Indeed One Loves (1955) as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
  • The Angry Street (1950)
  • Port of Flowers (1943) as Okano
  • Broken Drum (1949) as Nobuko
  • The Tale of Genji (1951) as Lady Kokiden
  • Carmen's Innocent Love (1952) as Maid
  • The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958) as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
  • Love and Death (1971)