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Chieko Higashiyama

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: Acting

Born: Chiba, Japan, 1890-09-30

Died: 1980-05-08

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1927	Reimei		0
2	1932	Rikugun Daikoshin		0
3	1937	The Siege of Osaka	Yodo-dono	0
4	1943	Port of Flowers	Okano	72
5	1943	Wakaki sugata	Kitamura's wife	0
6	1944	Battle Troop		0
7	1946	The Girl I Loved	Mother Okin	56
8	1947	Marriage	Fumie's mother	70
9	1947	Chikagai nijuyojikan		0
10	1947	The Love of the Actress Sumako		68
11	1948	The Portrait		60
12	1948	Apostasy		58
13	1949	Here's to the Young Lady	Yasuko's mother	65
14	1949	Ningen moyo		0
15	1949	Late Night Confession		0
16	1949	The Flower That Crossed the Mountain		0
17	1949	Broken Drum	Nobuko	67
18	1950	Spring Snow		0
19	1950	Four Seasons of Women	Mother	0
20	1950	I Saw a Phantom Fish		0
21	1950	The Angry Street		65
22	1950	Les Miserables I: God and the Devil		0
23	1950	Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom		0
24	1951	The Woman’s Reflective Pool	Unnamed	0
25	1951	The Idiot	Satoko, Ayako's mother	70
26	1951	The Tale of Genji	Lady Kokiden	55
27	1951	Ah, Youth		0
28	1951	Swords and Brocade		0
29	1951	Early Summer	Shige Mamiya	79
30	1951	Fireworks Over the Sea	Mitsu	50
31	1952	I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki		0
32	1952	Sisters of Nishijin		80
33	1952	Carmen's Innocent Love	Maid	58
34	1953	Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido		0
35	1953	Sincere Heart	Ichi	63
36	1953	Yassamossa		0
37	1953	Aiyoku no sabaki		0
38	1953	An Heir's Place		0
39	1953	Shishun no izumi	Retired Person	0
40	1953	Tokyo Story	Tomi Hirayama	82
41	1954	A Samurai's Love		0
42	1954	The Garden of Women	Schoolmaster	66
43	1954	How the Bell of Liberty Rings	Yukichi's Mother Ojun	0
44	1954	The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness		0
45	1954	The Princess Sen		50
46	1954	Women's House		60
47	1955	Farewell Song		0
48	1955	The Maid's Kid		70
49	1955	Ai Sureba Koso	Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)	0
50	1955	The Doctor		0
51	1956	Ai to chie no wa		0
52	1956	Virtue in Spades		0
53	1957	Itohan Monogatari	Owasa	0
54	1957	The Blue Sky Maiden	Shizue Hirooka	68
55	1958	The Loyal 47 Ronin	Otaka (Ôishi's mother)	60
56	1958	The Nun	монахиня Масамицу	0
57	1958	Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring	Mrs. Chiyoda	0
58	1958	Hana no yukyo-den		0
59	1959	The Snow Flurry	Tomi	66
60	1959	The Most Valuable Wife		75
61	1959	When a Woman Loves	Relative	0
62	1959	The Sky Is Mine		0
63	1960	Spring Dreams	Grandma	58
64	1960	The Wandering Princess	Nao Sugawara	67
65	1960	Shisha to no kekkon		72
66	1962	Nippon no obaachan		0
67	1962	This Year's Love		63
68	1962	Love School		0
69	1962	Mount Hakone		0
70	1962	Diary of a Mad Old Man	Hama, Tokusuke's wife	65
71	1962	A Woman's Life	Shizu Tsutsumi	0
72	1963	Sing, Young People	Okada's grandmother	58
73	1963	Ano hito wa ima		0
74	1964	Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple	Strange Beauty	70
75	1965	The Radish and the Carrot		100
76	1966	The Kii River	Toyono, Hana's grandmother	80
77	1967	Shogun and His Mistress 2	Eiho, nun	35
78	1971	The Gentle Japanese		0
79	1971	幻の殺意		0
80	1971	Love and Death		0
81	1971	Sweet Secret		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Oyaji Daiko		90