Chieko Higashiyama
Birthday: 1890-09-30 | Place of Birth: Chiba, JapanChieko 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Shige Mamiya
as Tomi Hirayama
as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
as Okada's grandmother
as Hama, Tokusuke's wife
as Shizu Tsutsumi
as Grandma
as Nao Sugawara
as Relative
as Tomi
as монахиня Масамицу
as Owasa
as Shizue Hirooka
