Cast & creator
Chieko Higashiyama
Best known for Tokyo Story, Oyaji Daiko, The Idiot
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.
Also known as: Sen Watanabe
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1927–1971 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (98)
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Tokyo Story
Tomi Hirayama
1953
Oyaji Daiko
1968
The Idiot
Satoko, Ayako's mother
1951
Shichinin no ani imōto
1955
School Girls in Costume
1955
Kanojo no tokudane
1952
Early Summer
Shige Mamiya
1951
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
1962
New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune
1956
The End of the War
1950
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Eiho, nun
1967
Mount Hakone
1962
Broken Drum
Nobuko
1949
Kotoshi no Koi
1967
The Kii River
Toyono, Hana's grandmother
1966
Spring Dreams
Grandma
1960
The Blue Sky Maiden
Shizue Hirooka
1957
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Strange Beauty
1964
The Garden of Women
Schoolmaster
1954
The Tale of Genji
Lady Kokiden
1951
The Angry Street
1950
The Second Kiss
1954
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949
Battle Troop
1944
Miss Teacher
1955
The Wandering Princess
Nao Sugawara
1960
The Princess Sen
1954
Rain on Jogashima
1950
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
1958
An Heir's Place
1953
A Samurai's Love
1954
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
1949
The Maid's Kid
1955
Fireworks Over the Sea
Mitsu
1951
If Indeed One Loves
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
1955
Apostasy
1948
Carmen's Innocent Love
Maid
1952
This Year's Love
1962Late Night Confession
1949
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Mrs. Chiyoda
1958
The Most Valuable Wife
1959
Marriage
Fumie's mother
1947
Live Again Tomorrow
その
1970
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Maboroshi no Satsui
1971
The Portrait
Nomura's Wife
1948In Case of One Woman
Natsuko Hashiba
1956
Love and Death
1971
Swords and Brocade
1951
The Nun
монахиня Масамицу
1958
I Saw a Phantom Fish
1950
Four Seasons of Women
Mother
1950
Itohan Monogatari
Owasa
1957
Love School
1962
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
The Snow Flurry
Tomi
1959
Spring Snow
Mother Okasaki
1950
Here It is Quiet
1956
Port of Flowers
Okano
1943Futari de miru hoshi
1947
Ai to chie no wa
1956
Sing, Young People!
Okada's grandmother
1963
Eternal Song of Nagasaki
1952
A Woman's Life
Shizu Tsutsumi
1962
When a Woman Loves
Relative
1960
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1953
Shishun no izumi
Retired Person
1953
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Yukichi's Mother Ojun
1954
Ah, Youth
1951
Ano hito wa ima
1963
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
1954
Sweet Secret
1971Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
The Siege of Osaka
Yodo-dono
1937
Virtue in Spades
1956
Floating Weeds Diary
Backstage Attendant
1955
Here's to the Young Lady
Yasuko's mother
1949Chikagai nijuyojikan
1947
The Doctor
1955
Wakaki sugata
Kitamura's wife
1943
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Unnamed
1951
Shisha to no kekkon
1960
Sincere Heart
Ichi
1953
The Gentle Japanese
1971
Women's House
1954
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953
Hana no yukyo-den
1958
The Girl I Loved
Mother Okin
1946
The Sky Is Mine
1959Rikugun Daikoshin
1932
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Ningen moyo
1949
Yassamossa
1953Reimei
1927
Farewell Song
1955