Chieko Higashiyama

Known for ActingBorn 1890-09-30Died 1980-05-08Chiba, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Gentle Japanese

The Doctor

Farewell Song

If Indeed One Loves

An Heir's Place

Chikagai nijuyojikan

Battle Troop

Oyaji Daiko

The Radish and the Carrot

Swords and Brocade

Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

The Maid's Kid

Tokyo Story

A Woman's Life

When a Woman Loves

The Most Valuable Wife

Hana no yukyo-den

A Samurai's Love

Yassamossa

Early Summer

The Kii River

Marriage

Sisters of Nishijin

Shisha to no kekkon

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple

Mount Hakone

Nippon no obaachan

Itohan Monogatari

Shishun no izumi

The Idiot

Four Seasons of Women

Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom

The Snow Flurry

Late Night Confession

Ningen moyo

The Blue Sky Maiden

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Port of Flowers

Wakaki sugata

The Wandering Princess

This Year's Love

The Siege of Osaka

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Here's to the Young Lady

The Angry Street

Broken Drum

The Portrait

The Garden of Women