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Eiko Miyoshi

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Eiko Miyoshi

Born April 8, 1894 in Tokyo, JaponDied July 28, 1963102 films

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.

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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.

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Ikiru posterFirst watchIkiru19528.3as HousewifeKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Throne of Blood poster7.9Throne of Blood1957The Hidden Fortress poster8.0The Hidden Fortress1958Stray Dog poster7.6Stray Dog1949Good Morning poster7.7Good Morning1959Tokyo Twilight poster7.7Tokyo Twilight1957Street of Shame poster7.7Street of Shame1956Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto poster7.2Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple poster7.2Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple1955

Filmography

102 films as actor
  1. 1964The Prodigal SonHis Mother
  2. 1959The Beast Shall Die
  3. 1959Good MorningMitsue Haraguchi
  4. 1959Samurai SagaOkuni
  5. 1959Fox and RaccoonLandlady Matsu from Gondola
  6. 1959A Whistle in My Heart
  7. 1959Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
  8. 1959Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
  9. 1959Goodbye, HelloWatanabe's mother
  10. 1958The Hidden FortressMaid (uncredited)
  11. 1958Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
  12. 1958The Days of Evil Women
  13. 1958Who Is the Informer?Tassel
  14. 1958The Naked General
  15. 1958Holiday in Tokyo
  16. 1958Firefly Light
  17. 1958The Third President
  18. 1958Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
  19. 1958A Boy and Three MothersKayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
  20. 1958Assistant President
  21. 1957The Unbalanced Wheel
  22. 1957The Oil-Hell Murder
  23. 1957Black RiverProcuress
  24. 1957The Lower DepthsAsa, Tomekichi's Wife
  25. 1957The Men of Toho-kuold woman
  26. 1957Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
  27. 1957The Chieko StoryKei
  28. 1957Blooms of Hell
  29. 1957The Shadow DaughterOtsuta
  30. 1957Turtledove
  31. 1957Snow CountryTeacher
  32. 1957Tokyo TwilightMidwife
  33. 1957Story of a Detective's AssistantShizu, Heikurō's mother
  34. 1957A Case of Honor
  35. 1957A Town with a Mountain and RiverTamako Sugawara
  36. 1957Throne of BloodOld Woman at castle
  37. 1956Achako's Diary: Bride-Catching Test
  38. 1956The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
  39. 1956Engagement RingTsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
  40. 1956Shozo, a Cat and Two WomenMrs. Shiokawa
  41. 1956Ohatsu's Unrequited Love
  42. 1956Jacks and JillsOld maid
  43. 1956Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai
  44. 1956Fighting Cha Cha GirlTane Grandma
  45. 1956A Wife's Heart
  46. 1956Blue BudsFemale teacher
  47. 1956The President Talks Bank
  48. 1956Street of ShameKadowaki Saku
  49. 1956Beyond The StarsYone
  50. 1956Careful Wife and Careless Wife: A Peaceful Couple
  51. 1956The President's Boss
  52. 1955I Live in FearToyo Nakajima
  53. 1955Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-TreeAyuta's grandmother
  54. 1955Bride in the Kitchen
  55. 1955Marital Relations
  56. 1955Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji TempleOsugi
  57. 1955The Rookie Managers
  58. 1955Love Never Fails
  59. 1955The Big AmbitionKiyo
  60. 1954The Cock Crows Twice
  61. 1954Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
  62. 195412 Chapters About WomenGo Hamako
  63. 1954Samurai I: Musashi MiyamotoOsugi
  64. 1954Five Sisters
  65. 1954How the Bell of Liberty Ringsaunt
  66. 1954My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
  67. 1954An Inn at Osaka
  68. 1954A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
  69. 1954A Young Couple Oversleeps
  70. 1953Omatsuri hanjiro
  71. 1953First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate HusbandMrs. Hatoko
  72. 1953Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His YouthTomé
  73. 1953White FishNan
  74. 1953Moth Lamp
  75. 1953Bot-chanMrs. Hagino
  76. 1953Their Father's WifeOtatsu
  77. 1953Mr. Pu
  78. 1953Sunflower Girl
  79. 1953Escape Zone
  80. 1953Where Chimneys Are SeenRanko
  81. 1953Husband and Wife
  82. 1953My Wonderful Yellow CarThe old wife
  83. 1953Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
  84. 1952Carmen's Innocent LoveKumako Satake
  85. 1952The Woman Who Touched the Legs
  86. 1952IkiruHousewife
  87. 1952Forbidden Path
  88. 1952MotherGrandmother
  89. 1952Third Class Executives
  90. 1952Sword for Hire
  91. 1952Okuni and GoheiMother
  92. 1952The Skin of the SouthOld lady Onodera
  93. 1951Who Knows a Woman's Heart
  94. 1951The Blue PearlNoe's aunt
  95. 1951The IdiotMadame Kayama
  96. 1951Boyhood
  97. 1951Elegy
  98. 1951Clothes of Deception
  99. 1950Escape from PrisonShinkichi's mother
  100. 1949Stray DogHarumi's mother
  101. 1946No Regrets for Our YouthMadame Yagihara
  102. 1941Notes of an Itinerant PerformerOtane