Chieko Higashiyama
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 film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.961 |
| Birthday | 1890-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Chiba, Japan |
| Also Known As | Sen Watanabe, |
1967
Shogun and His Mistress 2
4.5/4
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. Wh...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
1971
Sweet Secret
0/0
A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.
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Sweet Secret
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
1950
Four Seasons of Women
7/1
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
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Four Seasons of Women
1949
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
0/0
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The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
1953
Tokyo Story
8.169/1213
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder so...
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Tokyo Story
1951
Early Summer
7.847/206
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about...
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Early Summer
1949
Here's to the Young Lady
6.769/13
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
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Here's to the Young Lady
1953
Sincere Heart
6.364/11
A young student falls for an invalid girl whom he can only see from afar.
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Sincere Heart
1927
Reimei
0/0
First japanese talking movie.
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Reimei
1932
Rikugun Daikoshin
0/0
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Rikugun Daikoshin
1946
The Girl I Loved
6.333/6
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festiva...
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The Girl I Loved
1952
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
0/0
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1962
Love School
0/0
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Love School
1952
Sisters of Nishijin
7.5/2
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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Sisters of Nishijin
1960
The Wandering Princess
6.778/9
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love bet...
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The Wandering Princess
1960
When a Woman Loves
8/1
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
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When a Woman Loves
1954
The Princess Sen
5/1
During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a riv...
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The Princess Sen
1943
Wakaki sugata
7/1
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Wakaki sugata
1971
Maboroshi no Satsui
0/0
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
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Maboroshi no Satsui
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
6.182/11
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1954
A Samurai's Love
8/1
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
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A Samurai's Love
1950
Spring Snow
0/0
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not e...
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Spring Snow
1955
The Doctor
10/1
This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode t...
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The Doctor
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
9/1
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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
7/1
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Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1943
Port of Flowers
7.038/12
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backf...
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Port of Flowers
1953
An Heir's Place
10/1
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasega...
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An Heir's Place
1951
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
0/0
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in cha...
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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
1962
Mount Hakone
7/1
Japanese drama.
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Mount Hakone
1954
The Garden of Women
6.636/11
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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The Garden of Women
1953
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
0/0
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
1958
Hana no yukyo-den
8/1
1958 Japanese movie
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Hana no yukyo-den
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
5.429/7
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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Fireworks Over the Sea
1959
The Snow Flurry
6.9/10
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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The Snow Flurry
1960
Spring Dreams
6/8
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous frien...
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Spring Dreams
1948
Apostasy
6/6
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
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Apostasy
1948
The Portrait
6.667/6
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
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The Portrait
1949
Broken Drum
6.714/7
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord...
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Broken Drum
1950
The Angry Street
6.714/7
University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the...
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The Angry Street
1949
Late Night Confession
7/1
Japanese mystery thriller.
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Late Night Confession
1962
Diary of a Mad Old Man
6.667/3
Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still r...
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
1947
Marriage
7.667/3
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
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Marriage
1955
The Maid's Kid
8.333/3
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her fami...
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The Maid's Kid
1955
Farewell Song
10/1
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
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Farewell Song
1951
The Tale of Genji
6/7
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his hea...
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The Tale of Genji
1950
I Saw a Phantom Fish
0/0
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
1960
Shisha to no kekkon
7.2/2
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
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Shisha to no kekkon
1953
Shishun no izumi
7/1
The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away. For...
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Shishun no izumi
1955
If Indeed One Loves
10/1
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who be...
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If Indeed One Loves
1964
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
7.042/12
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1957
The Blue Sky Maiden
6.935/23
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
1971
Love and Death
0/0
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the circumsta...
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Love and Death
1963
Sing, Young People!
6.2/5
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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Sing, Young People!
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
1966
The Kii River
7.5/2
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
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The Kii River
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
9/2
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life...
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The Radish and the Carrot
1956
Ai to chie no wa
0/0
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Ai to chie no wa
1959
The Most Valuable Wife
8/5
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara...
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The Most Valuable Wife
1958
The Nun
0/0
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The Nun
1962
Nippon no obaachan
7/1
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
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Nippon no obaachan
1962
This Year's Love
6.75/4
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Alt...
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This Year's Love
1956
Virtue in Spades
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
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Virtue in Spades
1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
7/6
Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be wi...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
1971
The Gentle Japanese
10/1
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
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The Gentle Japanese
1953
Yassamossa
8/1
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Yassamossa
1947
Chikagai nijuyojikan
10/1
1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai
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Chikagai nijuyojikan
1944
Battle Troop
10/1
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their to...
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Battle Troop
1957
Itohan Monogatari
7/1
Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.
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Itohan Monogatari
1949
Ningen moyo
7/1
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
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Ningen moyo
1959
The Sky Is Mine
0/0
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The Sky Is Mine
1953
Aiyoku no sabaki
0/0
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devote...
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Aiyoku no sabaki
1937
The Siege of Osaka
7/1
The Siege of Osaka
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The Siege of Osaka
1962
A Woman's Life
8/1
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually find...
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A Woman's Life
1954
Women's House
6/1
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashir...
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Women's House
1954
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
0/0
In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister an...
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The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
1951
Swords and Brocade
9/1
A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
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Swords and Brocade
1951
Ah, Youth
0/0
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Ah, Youth
1963
Ano hito wa ima
0/0
1963 Japanese movie
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Ano hito wa ima
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
1958
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
0/0
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...
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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
1970
Live Again Tomorrow
0/0
Yamada Maki, who has a strained relationship with her father and a protective older brother, Katsuyoshi, faces a series of emotional challenges, inclu...
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Live Again Tomorrow
1956
Here It is Quiet
0/0
A youth film set in a high school.
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