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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.
As actor
Sweet Secret
Maboroshi no Satsui
Love and Death
The Gentle Japanese
Live Again Tomorrow
Shogun and His Mistress 2
The Kii River
The Radish and the Carrot
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Sing, Young People!
Ano hito wa ima
Love School
Mount Hakone
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Nippon no obaachan
This Year's Love
A Woman's Life
The Wandering Princess
When a Woman Loves
Spring Dreams
Shisha to no kekkon
The Snow Flurry
The Most Valuable Wife
The Sky Is Mine
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Hana no yukyo-den
The Nun
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
The Blue Sky Maiden
Itohan Monogatari