Chieko Higashiyama
Birthday
1890/09/30
Day of death
1980/05/08 (89 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Chiba, Japan
Also know as
Sen Watanabe
Biography
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1967) Shogun and His Mistress 2
as Eiho, nun
(1971) Sweet Secret
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(1951) The Idiot
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
(1950) Four Seasons of Women
as Mother
(1949) The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
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(1953) Tokyo Story
as Tomi Hirayama
(1951) Early Summer
as Shige Mamiya
(1949) Here's to the Young Lady
as Yasuko's mother
(1953) Sincere Heart
as Ichi
(1927) Reimei
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(1932) Rikugun Daikoshin
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(1946) The Girl I Loved
as Mother Okin
(1952) I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
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(1962) Love School
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(1952) Sisters of Nishijin
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(1960) The Wandering Princess
as Nao Sugawara
(1960) When a Woman Loves
as Relative
(1954) The Princess Sen
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(1943) Wakaki sugata
as Kitamura's wife
(1971) 幻の殺意
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(1958) The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
(1954) A Samurai's Love
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(1950) Spring Snow
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(1955) The Doctor
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(1950) Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
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(1950) Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
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(1943) Port of Flowers
as Okano
(1953) An Heir's Place
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(1951) The Woman’s Reflective Pool
as Unnamed
(1962) Mount Hakone
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(1954) The Garden of Women
as Schoolmaster
(1953) Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
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(1958) Hana no yukyo-den
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(1951) Fireworks Over the Sea
as Mitsu
(1959) The Snow Flurry
as Tomi
(1960) Spring Dreams
as Grandma
(1948) Apostasy
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(1948) The Portrait
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(1949) Broken Drum
as Nobuko
(1950) The Angry Street
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(1949) Late Night Confession
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(1962) Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
(1947) Marriage
as Fumie's mother
(1955) The Maid's Kid
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(1955) Farewell Song
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(1951) The Tale of Genji
as Lady Kokiden
(1950) I Saw a Phantom Fish
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(1960) Shisha to no kekkon
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(1953) Shishun no izumi
as Retired Person
(1955) Ai Sureba Koso
as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
(1964) Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Strange Beauty
(1957) The Blue Sky Maiden
as Shizue Hirooka
(1971) Love and Death
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(1963) Sing, Young People!
as Okada's grandmother
(1952) Carmen's Innocent Love
as Maid
(1966) The Kii River
as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
(1965) The Radish and the Carrot
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(1956) Ai to chie no wa
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(1959) The Most Valuable Wife
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(1958) The Nun
as монахиня Масамицу
(1962) Nippon no obaachan
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(1962) This Year's Love
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(1956) Virtue in Spades
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(1947) The Love of the Actress Sumako
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(1971) The Gentle Japanese
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(1953) Yassamossa
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(1947) Chikagai nijuyojikan
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(1944) Battle Troop
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(1957) Itohan Monogatari
as Owasa
(1949) Ningen moyo
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(1959) The Sky Is Mine
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(1953) Aiyoku no sabaki
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(1937) The Siege of Osaka
as Yodo-dono
(1962) A Woman's Life
as Shizu Tsutsumi
(1954) Women's House
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(1954) The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
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(1951) Swords and Brocade
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(1951) Ah, Youth
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(1963) Ano hito wa ima
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(1954) How the Bell of Liberty Rings
as Yukichi's Mother Ojun
(1958) Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
as Mrs. Chiyoda
(1968) Oyaji Daiko
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(1967) Kotoshi no Koi
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