Chieko Higashiyama

Chieko Higashiyama
東山 千栄子
Chieko Higashiyama in the 1953 film Tokyo Story
Born	30 September 1890 Chiba, Japan
Died	8 May 1980(1980-05-08) (aged 89) Yokohama, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1925–1980

Chieko Higashiyama (東山 千栄子, Higashiyama Chieko; 30 September 1890 – 8 May 1980) was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1936 to 1967.

Career

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 became an actress and then trained at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō. She appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard. She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in a poll of film directors by Sight and Sound magazine.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1947	The Love of the Actress Sumako
1951	The Idiot
	The Tale of Genji
	Early Summer	Shige
1952	The Life of Oharu
	Carmen's Pure Love	Housemaid
1953	Tokyo Story	Tomi
1954	The Garden of Women	Schoolmaster
	The Princess Sen	Yodo-dono
1955	The Maid's Kid	Hatsu's mother
1957	The Blue Sky Maiden
1958	The Loyal 47 Ronin	Otaka
1959	The Snow Flurry	Tomi
1960	The Wandering Princess
1966	The Kii River

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1956)
• Order of the Precious Crown, 4th Class, Wisteria (1965)
• Person of Cultural Merit (1966)
• Order of the Precious Crown, 3rd class, Butterfly (1974)

External links

• Chieko Higashiyama at IMDb