Eiko Miyoshi
Eiko Miyoshi ( April 8, 1894 – July 28, 1963 ) was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo . Her husband was the film producer Nobuyoshi Morita . She appeared in many Toho films, including those directed by Akira Kurosawa . Her birth name was Haru Miyata, and her real name after marriage was Haru Morita.
After the Second World War , she entered the film industry at the request of director Akira Kurosawa . In 1946 , at the age of 52, she made her first film appearance in Kurosawa's first postwar film, No Regrets for My Youth. From then on, through the 1950s, she was cast in a succession of films by Japan's leading directors, including Kurosawa's , Kinoshita Keisuke , Naruse Mikio , Ozu Yasujiro , Mizoguchi Kenji , Gosho Heinosuke , Ichikawa Kon, and Toyoda Shiro . She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2833 |
| Birthday | 1894-04-08 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Miyata Haru, Miyoshi Eiko, Haru Miyata, |
1958
The Hidden Fortress
7.985/701
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g...
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The Hidden Fortress
1949
Stray Dog
7.6/352
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog
1953
Escape Zone
0/0
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...
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Escape Zone
1955
I Live in Fear
7.31/121
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared i...
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I Live in Fear
1954
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
7.2/208
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1951
The Idiot
6.98/127
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgrac...
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The Idiot
1957
The Lower Depths
7.082/141
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur...
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The Lower Depths
1959
Good Morning
7.711/310
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of...
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Good Morning
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
6.892/88
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
1953
White Fish
7/1
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon th...
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White Fish
1953
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
0/0
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
1956
The President Talks Bank
0/0
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
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The President Talks Bank
1959
Samurai Saga
6.947/19
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady....
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Samurai Saga
1953
Omatsuri hanjiro
8/1
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather t...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
8/1
1958 Japanese movie
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1951
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
10/1
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1958
Assistant President
10/1
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Assistant President
1951
Clothes of Deception
7/5
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
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Clothes of Deception
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
8/1
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1958
Holiday in Tokyo
9/1
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...
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Holiday in Tokyo
1958
A Boy and Three Mothers
7/1
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A Boy and Three Mothers
1956
The President's Boss
8/1
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
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The President's Boss
1957
Jigoku bana
9/1
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
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Jigoku bana
1951
The Blue Pearl
7.5/2
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coasta...
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The Blue Pearl
1952
Third Class Executives
7/1
1950s Japanese comedy.
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Third Class Executives
1950
Escape from Prison
10/1
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Escape from Prison
1952
Ikiru
8.3/1336
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1957
Throne of Blood
7.921/975
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...
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Throne of Blood
1952
Mother
6.95/20
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Mother
1956
A Wife's Heart
6.917/12
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jeal...
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A Wife's Heart
1954
An Inn at Osaka
7.538/13
Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries...
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An Inn at Osaka
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
6.607/14
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
1941
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
7.4/5
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
1953
Bot-chan
10/2
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Bot-chan
1958
Firefly Light
9/1
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small i...
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Firefly Light
1956
女大学野球狂時代
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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女大学野球狂時代
1952
Okuni and Gohei
6.545/11
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...
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Okuni and Gohei
1959
A Whistle in My Heart
6.714/7
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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A Whistle in My Heart
1953
Mr. Pu
6.667/3
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Mr. Pu
1956
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
6.7/10
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1955
Marital Relations
5.571/7
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. Th...
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Marital Relations
1957
Snow Country
6.727/11
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous t...
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Snow Country
1952
Sword for Hire
6.7/10
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...
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Sword for Hire
1957
Black River
6.938/32
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social di...
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Black River
1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
7.145/141
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1952
Carmen's Innocent Love
5.25/14
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
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Carmen's Innocent Love
1957
The Unbalanced Wheel
7/1
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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The Unbalanced Wheel
1954
The Cock Crows Twice
7/1
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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The Cock Crows Twice
1958
The Days of Evil Women
7/1
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
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The Days of Evil Women
1952
The Skin of the South
8/2
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one en...
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The Skin of the South
1959
The Beast Shall Die
6.222/9
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot...
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The Beast Shall Die
1952
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
8/1
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going t...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1953
Husband and Wife
6.889/9
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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Husband and Wife
1953
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
10/1
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
1957
Tokyo Twilight
7.703/153
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
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Tokyo Twilight
1957
A Case of Honor
0/0
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...
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A Case of Honor
1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
6.571/7
A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1951
Boyhood
6.923/13
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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Boyhood
1955
The Big Ambition
0/0
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The Big Ambition
1956
Jacks and Jills
7/1
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Jacks and Jills
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car
7/2
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
Their Father's Wife
7/1
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Their Father's Wife
1953
Youth of Heiji Senigata
7/1
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Youth of Heiji Senigata
1955
Love Never Fails
8/1
Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths dies, the ot...
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Love Never Fails
1952
Forbidden Path
8/1
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Forbidden Path
1953
Sunflower Girl
10/1
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...
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Sunflower Girl
1951
Elegy
9/1
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...
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Elegy
1958
The Third President
10/1
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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The Third President
1959
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
10/1
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
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Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
1959
Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
9/1
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
1956
Street of Shame
7.701/149
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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Street of Shame
1955
The Rookie Managers
0/0
1955 Japanese movie
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The Rookie Managers
1958
Who Is the Informer?
0/0
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend.
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Who Is the Informer?
1954
Five Sisters
8/4
The story of five sisters.
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Five Sisters
1954
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
0/0
Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Des...
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How the Bell of Liberty Rings
1954
12 Chapters About Women
7/1
Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result of...
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12 Chapters About Women
1958
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
0/0
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...
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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
1957
The Shadow Daughter
8/1
Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreaks. After an unexpected pregnancy, she has an abort...
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The Shadow Daughter
1959
Fox and Raccoon
9/1
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and drea...
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Fox and Raccoon
1957
A Town with a Mountain and River
7/1
In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mistress joining the household. Misunderstandings spre...
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A Town with a Mountain and River
1957
The Oil-Hell Murder
7/1
A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.
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The Oil-Hell Murder
1959
Goodbye, Hello
7.5/2
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Thei...
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Goodbye, Hello
1956
Fighting Cha Cha Girl
8/1
After winning a singing contest, Momoko leaves her rural village for Tokyo to pursue her dream. Misunderstandings, scams, and shifting ambitions lead...
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Fighting Cha Cha Girl
1956
Blue Buds
0/0
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, she impulsively declares she wants to marry him—the...
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Blue Buds
1956
Engagement Ring
0/0
A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds his lost ring. Their growing affection challenges cl...
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Engagement Ring
1964
The Prodigal Son
0/0
A Japanese adaption of the story of the Prodigal Son.
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The Prodigal Son
1957
The Men of Toho-ku
9/1
Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.
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The Men of Toho-ku
1955
Bride in the Kitchen
0/0
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