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Eiko Miyoshi

Eiko Miyoshi

Actor · Born 1894-04-08 · Tokyo, Japon

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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

  1. Ikiru (1952) — Housewife
  2. Throne of Blood (1957) — Old Woman at castle
  3. The Hidden Fortress (1958) — Maid (uncredited)
  4. Stray Dog (1949) — Harumi's mother
  5. Good Morning (1959) — Mitsue Haraguchi
  6. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) — Osugi
  7. Tokyo Twilight (1957) — Midwife
  8. Street of Shame (1956) — Kadowaki Saku
  9. The Lower Depths (1957) — Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
  10. Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) — Osugi
  11. The Idiot (1951) — Madame Kayama
  12. I Live in Fear (1955) — Toyo Nakajima
  13. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) — Madame Yagihara
  14. Black River (1957)
  15. Mother (1952) — Grandmother
  16. Samurai Saga (1959) — Okuni
  17. Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953) — Ranko
  18. Carmen's Innocent Love (1952) — Kumako Satake
  19. An Inn at Osaka (1954)
  20. A Wife's Heart (1956)
  21. Okuni and Gohei (1952) — Mother
  22. Boyhood (1951)
  23. Snow Country (1957) — Teacher
  24. Shozo, a Cat and Two Women (1956) — Mrs. Shiokawa
  25. Sword for Hire (1952)
  26. The Beast Shall Die (1959)
  27. Husband and Wife (1953)
  28. A Whistle in My Heart (1959)
  29. Marital Relations (1955)
  30. Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)
  31. Clothes of Deception (1951)
  32. Notes of an Itinerant Performer (1941) — Otane
  33. Five Sisters (1954)
  34. Mr. Pu (1953)
  35. The Blue Pearl (1951) — Noe's aunt
  36. Bot-chan (1953) — Mrs. Hagino
  37. The Cock Crows Twice (1954)
  38. The Skin of the South (1952) — Old lady Onodera
  39. My Wonderful Yellow Car (1953) — The old wife
  40. Goodbye, Hello (1959) — Watanabe's mother