Chieko Higashiyama
Birthday: 1890-09-30
Place of Birth: Chiba, Japan
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.
Movies
Shogun and His Mistress 2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes ot...
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Sweet Secret
A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while i...
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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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Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...
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Here's to the Young Lady
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an au...
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Sincere Heart
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from ...
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The Girl I Loved
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to revea...
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with a...
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The Wandering Princess
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocrat...
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When a Woman Loves
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman....
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The Princess Sen
During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with oth...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
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A Samurai's Love
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki....
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Spring Snow
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries ...
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The Doctor
This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusin...
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Port of Flowers
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the ou...
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An Heir's Place
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office ...
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The Garden of Women
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned do...
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spen...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they ...
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The Snow Flurry
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child....
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Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home...
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Apostasy
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visit...
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The Portrait
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artis...
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Broken Drum
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his child...
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The Angry Street
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown ...
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers th...
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Marriage
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult c...
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The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akit...
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The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish....
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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 ac...
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Shishun no izumi
The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the ...
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Ai Sureba Koso
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" ...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family wher...
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Love and Death
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko....
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Sing, Young People!
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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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 Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and econom...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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The Most Valuable Wife
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daugh...
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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This Year's Love
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outsp...
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The Gentle Japanese
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute mo...
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Battle Troop
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are go...
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Itohan Monogatari
Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-he...
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Ningen moyo
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president....
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Aiyoku no sabaki
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in ...
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A Woman's Life
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo a...
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Women's House
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shu...
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The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Mik...
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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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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...
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