Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
9/30/1890
Place of Birth
Chiba, Japan
Also Known As
Sen Watanabe
Chieko Higashiyama
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 "The Cherry Orchard." She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best fi...
Known For
Tokyo Story
as Tomi Hirayama
The Idiot
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
Early Summer
as Shige Mamiya
Carmen's Innocent Love
as Maid
Love School
Unknown Role
The Most Valuable Wife
Unknown Role
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
Apostasy
Unknown Role
The Blue Sky Maiden
as Shizue Hirooka
The Snow Flurry
as Tomi
Sincere Heart
as Ichi
The Garden of Women
as Schoolmaster
This Year's Love
Unknown Role
Love and Death
Unknown Role
The Wandering Princess
as Nao Sugawara
Ai Sureba Koso
as Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
The Kii River
as Toyono, Hana's grandmother
Shogun and His Mistress 2
as Eiho, nun
Marriage
as Fumie's mother
The Portrait
Unknown Role