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Chieko Higashiyama
Acting
30 Sept 1890
† 08 May 1980
Chiba, Japan
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 ...
Also Known As
Sen Watanabe
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Chieko Higashiyama's Movies
82%
Tokyo Story
03 Nov 1953
78%
Early Summer
03 Oct 1951
70%
The Idiot
23 May 1951
68%
The Blue Sky Maiden
08 Oct 1957
51%
Carmen's Innocent Love
13 Nov 1952
65%
Here's to the Young Lady
09 Mar 1949
70%
Port of Flowers
29 Jul 1943
70%
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
01 Jan 1964
61%
Sincere Heart
29 Jan 1953
58%
The Loyal 47 Ronin
01 Apr 1958
66%
The Garden of Women
16 Mar 1954
67%
The Snow Flurry
03 Jan 1959
68%
The Wandering Princess
27 Jan 1960
56%
Spring Dreams
03 Jan 1960
47%
Fireworks Over the Sea
25 Oct 1951
67%
Broken Drum
01 Dec 1949
65%
The Angry Street
14 May 1950
55%
The Tale of Genji
11 Jun 1951
56%
The Girl I Loved
29 Oct 1946
54%
Apostasy
30 Nov 1948
