Biography
Eiko Miyoshi (April 8, 1894 – July 28, 1963) was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo. Her husband was the film producer Nobuyoshi Morita. She appeared in many Toho films, including those directed by Akira Kurosawa. Her birth name was Haru Miyata, and her real name after marriage was Haru Morita. After the Second World War , she entered the film industry at the request of director Akira Kurosawa. In 1946, at the age of 52, she made her first film appearance in Kurosawa's first postwar film, No Regrets for My Youth. From then on, through the 1950s, she was cast in a succession of films by Japan's leading directors, including Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Heinosuke Gosho, Kon Ichikawa, and Shirō Toyoda. She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Acted in 98
1950s
- 1959
The Beast Shall Die
Movie
Samurai Saga
Okuni
Fox and Raccoon
Landlady Matsu from Gondola
A Whistle in My Heart
Movie
Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
Movie
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Movie
- 1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Movie
The Days of Evil Women
Movie
Who Is the Informer?
Tassel
The Naked General
Movie
Holiday in Tokyo
Movie
Firefly Light
Movie
The Third President
Movie
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Movie
A Boy and Three Mothers
Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
Assistant President
Movie
- 1957
The Oil-Hell Murder
Movie
The Lower Depths
Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
The Men of Toho-ku
old woman
Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
Movie
The Chieko Story
Kei
Blooms of Hell
Movie
The Shadow Daughter
Otsuta
Turtledove
Movie
Snow Country
Teacher
Story of a Detective's Assistant
Shizu, Heikurō's mother
A Case of Honor
Movie
A Town with a Mountain and River
Tamako Sugawara
- 1956
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
Movie
Engagement Ring
Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Mrs. Shiokawa
Ohatsu's Unrequited Love
Movie
Jacks and Jills
Old maid
Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai
Movie
Fighting Cha Cha Girl
Tane Grandma
A Wife's Heart
Movie
Blue Buds
Female teacher
The President Talks Bank
Movie
Street of Shame
Kadowaki Saku
Beyond The Stars
Yone
Careful Wife and Careless Wife: A Peaceful Couple
Movie
The President's Boss
Movie
- 1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Ayuta's grandmother
Marital Relations
Movie
The Rookie Managers
Movie
Love Never Fails
Movie
The Big Ambition
Kiyo
- 1954
The Cock Crows Twice
Movie
Five Sisters
Movie
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
aunt
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Movie
An Inn at Osaka
Movie
A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
Movie
- 1953
Omatsuri hanjiro
Movie
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Mrs. Hatoko
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
Tomé
White Fish
Nan
Moth Lamp
Movie
Bot-chan
Mrs. Hagino
Their Father's Wife
Otatsu
Mr. Pu
Movie
Sunflower Girl
Movie
Escape Zone
Movie
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Ranko
Husband and Wife
Movie
My Wonderful Yellow Car
The old wife
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Movie
- 1952
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Movie
Forbidden Path
Movie
Mother
Grandmother
Sword for Hire
Movie
Okuni and Gohei
Mother
The Skin of the South
Old lady Onodera
- 1951
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Movie
The Blue Pearl
Noe's aunt
Boyhood
Movie
Elegy
Movie
Clothes of Deception
Movie
- 1950
Escape from Prison
Shinkichi's mother
1940s
- 1949
- 1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Yagihara
- 1941
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Otane
