

Cast & creator
Best known for Ikiru, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress
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.
Also known as: Miyata Haru, Miyoshi Eiko, Haru Miyata, 三好栄子
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102
1941–1964 · acting roles
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Housewife
1952
Old Woman at castle
1957
Maid (uncredited)
1958
Harumi's mother
1949
Madame Kayama
1951
Mitsue Haraguchi
1959
Kadowaki Saku
1956
Toyo Nakajima
1955
Noe's aunt
1951
Midwife
1957
Osugi
1954
Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
1957
Osugi
1955
Madame Yagihara
1946




old woman
1957
Grandmother
1952

Procuress
1957
Teacher
1957


Yone
1956




Landlady Matsu from Gondola
1959





Mrs. Hagino
1953
Nan
1953




Mrs. Shiokawa
1956
Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
1956


Shizu, Heikurō's mother
1957

Kumako Satake
1952

Shinkichi's mother
1950
The old wife
1953
Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
1958

Mother
1952



Tamako Sugawara
1957
Otane
1941

Tassel
1958



Okuni
1959

Old lady Onodera
1952



Ranko
1953

Kei
1957
Ayuta's grandmother
1955
Old maid
1956
Otsuta
1957


aunt
1954


Kiyo
1955
Otatsu
1953
Female teacher
1956His Mother
1964






Go Hamako
1954

Mrs. Hatoko
1953
Tomé
1953

Watanabe's mother
1959
Tane Grandma
1956