Biography
Eiko Miyoshi (April 8, 1894 – July 28, 1963) was a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo. Her husband was the film producer Nobuyoshi Morita. She appeared in many Toho films, including those directed by Akira Kurosawa. Her birth name was Haru Miyata, and her real name after marriage was Haru Morita. After the Second World War , she entered the film industry at the request of director Akira Kurosawa. In 1946, at the age of 52, she made her first film appearance in Kurosawa's first postwar film, No Regrets for My Youth. From then on, through the 1950s, she was cast in a succession of films by Japan's leading directors, including Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Heinosuke Gosho, Kon Ichikawa, and Shirō Toyoda. She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Movies & TV Shows
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Ikiru (1952) — Housewife
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Throne of Blood (1957) — Old Woman at castle
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The Hidden Fortress (1958) — Maid (uncredited)
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Stray Dog (1949) — Harumi's mother
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Good Morning (1959) — Mitsue Haraguchi
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) — Osugi
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Tokyo Twilight (1957) — Midwife
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Street of Shame (1956) — Kadowaki Saku
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The Lower Depths (1957) — Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) — Osugi
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The Idiot (1951) — Madame Kayama
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I Live in Fear (1955) — Toyo Nakajima
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No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) — Madame Yagihara
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Black River (1957)
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Mother (1952) — Grandmother
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Samurai Saga (1959) — Okuni
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Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953) — Ranko
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Carmen's Innocent Love (1952) — Kumako Satake
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An Inn at Osaka (1954)
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A Wife's Heart (1956)
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Okuni and Gohei (1952) — Mother
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Boyhood (1951)
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Snow Country (1957) — Teacher
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women (1956) — Mrs. Shiokawa
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Sword for Hire (1952)
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The Beast Shall Die (1959)
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Husband and Wife (1953)
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A Whistle in My Heart (1959)
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Marital Relations (1955)
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)
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Clothes of Deception (1951)
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer (1941) — Otane
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Five Sisters (1954)
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Mr. Pu (1953)
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The Blue Pearl (1951) — Noe's aunt
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Bot-chan (1953) — Mrs. Hagino
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The Cock Crows Twice (1954)
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The Skin of the South (1952) — Old lady Onodera
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My Wonderful Yellow Car (1953) — The old wife
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Goodbye, Hello (1959) — Watanabe's mother