Chieko Higashiyama
Acting
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.
Born: September 30, 1890
Place of Birth: Chiba, Japan
Known For
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Oyaji Daiko
The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company that has made a fortune in its first generation, but he is a one-man family. His wife, Aiko, is a typical good wife and wise mother type. Kamejiro gets angry and thunders down every week, and the children are afraid of him, calling him "Oyaji Daiko", but he also takes advantage of this.
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Sisters of Nishijin
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
The Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
Early Summer
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
The Most Valuable Wife
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
Shisha to no kekkon
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
Filmography
as その
as Eiho, nun
as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
as Strange Beauty
as Okada's grandmother
as Shizu Tsutsumi
as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
as Nao Sugawara
as Grandma
as Relative
as Tomi
as Mrs. Chiyoda
as монахиня Масамицу
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
as Shizue Hirooka
as Owasa
as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
as Schoolmaster
as Tomi Hirayama
as Retired Person
as Ichi
as Maid
as Mitsu
as Shige Mamiya
as Lady Kokiden
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
as Unnamed
as Mother
as Nobuko
as Yasuko's mother
as Nomura's Wife
as Fumie's mother
as Mother Okin
as Kitamura's wife
as Okano
as Yodo-dono