Chieko Higashiyama
September 30, 1890
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 pione…
Known For
6 titles
Tokyo Story
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Early Summer
A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.
The Idiot
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
Ruten no ôhi
A film adaptation of the autobiography of Aishinkakura Hiro, who lived a tumultuous life as the consort of Fuketsu, the younger brother of Emperor Puyi of Manchukuo.
Saikô shukun fujin
In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Japanese spy service.
Raigekitai Shutsudô
Wartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war. The film opens with the Battle of Midway, The enemy carriers and ships are sunk with the IJN suffering minimal losses. However, the enemy has yet to surrender. ...