Eiko Miyoshi

Known for ActingBorn 1894-04-08Died 1963-07-28Tokyo, Japon

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, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Heinosuke Gosho, Kon Ichikawa, and Shirō Toyoda. She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.Read more

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Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period

Assistant President

The Third President

Bot-chan

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

Sunflower Girl

Who Knows a Woman's Heart

Escape from Prison

Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II

Fox and Raccoon

Holiday in Tokyo

Firefly Light

Jigoku bana

The Men of Toho-ku

Elegy

Ikiru

The Hidden Fortress

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

The Shadow Daughter

The President's Boss

Fighting Cha Cha Girl

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

Love Never Fails

Five Sisters

Omatsuri hanjiro

The Skin of the South

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

Forbidden Path

Throne of Blood

Good Morning

Tokyo Twilight

Street of Shame

Stray Dog

Goodbye, Hello

An Inn at Osaka

The Blue Pearl

I Live in Fear

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

The Lower Depths

A Boy and Three Mothers

The Days of Evil Women

The Unbalanced Wheel

A Town with a Mountain and River

The Oil-Hell Murder

Jacks and Jills

The Cock Crows Twice