Person Details

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Aliases: Sen Watanabe

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Chiba, Japan

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Movie Involvements: 24

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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 film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.

Most Famous Work

Tokyo Story
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8

Tokyo Story

(1953) Tomi Hirayama
The Idiot
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7

The Idiot

(1951) Satoko, Ayako's mother
Early Summer
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8

Early Summer

(1951) Shige Mamiya
The Loyal 47 Ronin
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6

The Loyal 47 Ronin

(1958) Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
The Tale of Genji
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5

The Tale of Genji

(1951) Lady Kokiden
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
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7
Fireworks Over the Sea
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5
Ai Sureba Koso
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0

Ai Sureba Koso

(1955) Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1971 N/A
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1968 N/A
1967 Eiho, nun
1966 Toyono, Hana's grandmother
1965 N/A
1964 Strange Beauty
1963 Okada's grandmother
1962 Shizu Tsutsumi
Hama, Tokusuke's wife
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1960 N/A
Nao Sugawara
Grandma
1959 N/A
Relative
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Tomi
1958 N/A
монахиня Масамицу
Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
1957 Shizue Hirooka
Owasa
1956 N/A
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1955 N/A
Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)
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1954 N/A
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Schoolmaster
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1953 Tomi Hirayama
Retired Person
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Ichi
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1952 Maid
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1951 Mitsu
Shige Mamiya
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Lady Kokiden
Satoko, Ayako's mother
Unnamed
1950 N/A
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Mother
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1949 Nobuko
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Yasuko's mother
1948 N/A
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1947 N/A
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Fumie's mother
1946 Mother Okin
1944 N/A
1943 Kitamura's wife
Okano
1937 Yodo-dono
1932 N/A
1927 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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