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.
Acted in 93
1970s
- 1971
Sweet Secret
Movie
Maboroshi no Satsui
Movie
The Gentle Japanese
Movie
- 1970
Live Again Tomorrow
その
1960s
- 1968
- 1967
Kotoshi no Koi
TV
- 1966
The Kii River
Toyono, Hana's grandmother
- 1965
The Radish and the Carrot
Movie
- 1964
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Strange Beauty
- 1963
Ano hito wa ima
Movie
- 1962
A Woman's Life
Shizu Tsutsumi
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
Mount Hakone
Movie
Love School
Movie
This Year's Love
Movie
Nippon no obaachan
Movie
- 1960
Shisha to no kekkon
Movie
When a Woman Loves
Relative
Spring Dreams
Grandma
1950s
- 1959
The Sky Is Mine
Movie
The Snow Flurry
Tomi
- 1958
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Mrs. Chiyoda
- 1957
The Blue Sky Maiden
Shizue Hirooka
Itohan Monogatari
Owasa
- 1956
New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune
Movie
Here It is Quiet
Movie
Virtue in Spades
Movie
Ai to chie no wa
Movie
Wedding Day
Movie
- 1955
Shichinin no ani imōto
Movie
Floating Weeds Diary
Backstage Attendant
If Indeed One Loves
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
School Girls in Costume
Movie
Miss Teacher
Movie
- 1954
Women's House
Movie
The Princess Sen
Movie
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
The Second Kiss
Movie
- 1953
Aiyoku no sabaki
Movie
Yassamossa
Movie
Sincere Heart
Ichi
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Movie
- 1952
Eternal Song of Nagasaki
Movie
- 1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
Mitsu
Swords and Brocade
Movie
The Tale of Genji
Lady Kokiden
- 1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Movie
The End of the War
Movie
Rain on Jogashima
Movie
I Saw a Phantom Fish
Movie
Four Seasons of Women
Mother
Spring Snow
Mother Okasaki
1940s
- 1949
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
Movie
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
Movie
Ningen moyo
Movie
- 1948
Apostasy
Movie
- 1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Movie
- 1946
- 1944
Battle Troop
Movie
- 1943
Wakaki sugata
Kitamura's wife
1930s
- 1937
