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
(1953) Tomi HirayamaThe Idiot
(1951) Satoko, Ayako's motherEarly Summer
(1951) Shige MamiyaThe Loyal 47 Ronin
(1958) Otaka (Ôishi's mother)The Tale of Genji
(1951) Lady KokidenMiyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
(1964) Strange BeautyFireworks Over the Sea
(1951) MitsuAi Sureba Koso
(1955) Kuniko's mother (segment 2) (voice)Acting
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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 | ||
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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 | |
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