Eiko Miyoshi
Birthday: 1894-04-08
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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's , Kinoshita Keisuke , Naruse Mikio , Ozu Yasujiro , Mizoguchi Kenji , Gosho Heinosuke , Ichikawa Kon, and Toyoda Shiro . She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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Escape Zone
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dang...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...
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The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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White Fish
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor...
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class w...
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The President Talks Bank
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher ...
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's weste...
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Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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The President's Boss
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's d...
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The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; liter...
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr...
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Firefly Light
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima...
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Okuni and Gohei
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in se...
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A Whistle in My Heart
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reac...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...
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Carmen's Innocent Love
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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The Cock Crows Twice
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves....
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The Days of Evil Women
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with...
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The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable...
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The Beast Shall Die
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr...
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Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
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Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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A Case of Honor
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic ...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c...
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Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community....
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Love Never Fails
Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keep...
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Sunflower Girl
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, ...
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Sixth entry in the Company President Series....
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Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color....
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Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...
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Who Is the Informer?
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out ...
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How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def...
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12 Chapters About Women
Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta w...
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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce...
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The Shadow Daughter
Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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A Town with a Mountain and River
In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mist...
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The Oil-Hell Murder
A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka....
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Goodbye, Hello
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obliga...
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Fighting Cha Cha Girl
After winning a singing contest, Momoko leaves her rural village for Tokyo to pursue her dream. Misu...
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Blue Buds
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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Engagement Ring
A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds hi...
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