Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1890-09-30
Day of Death
1980-05-08
Place of Birth
Chiba, Japan
Chieko Higashiyama
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.
Filmography (84)
Sweet Secret
1971
Love and Death
1971
Maboroshi no Satsui
1971
The Gentle Japanese
1971
Live Again Tomorrow
1970
Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967
The Kii River
1966
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964
Ano hito wa ima
1963
Sing, Young People!
1963
A Woman's Life
1962
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1962
Mount Hakone
1962
