Name
Eiko Miyoshi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1894-04-08
Deathday
1963-07-28 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japon
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.
Known For
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Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spiri...
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In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, sold...
7.7
Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. ...
7.7
Two sisters learn about the existence of their long-lost biological mother, but the younge...
7.7
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passa...
7.1
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man...
7.3
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his...
- 1958 The Hidden Fortress as Maid (uncredited)
- 1949 Stray Dog as Harumi's mother
- 1953 Escape Zone
- 1955 I Live in Fear as Toyo Nakajima
- 1954 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto as Osugi
- 1951 The Idiot as Madame Kayama
- 1957 The Lower Depths as Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
- 1959 Good Morning as Mitsue Haraguchi
- 1946 No Regrets for Our Youth as Madame Yagihara
- 1953 First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband as Mrs. Hatoko
- 1953 White Fish as Nan
- 1956 The President Talks Bank
- 1959 Samurai Saga as Okuni
- 1953 Omatsuri hanjiro
- 1958 Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- 1951 Who Knows a Woman's Heart
- 1958 Assistant President
- 1951 Clothes of Deception
- 1955 Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Ayuta's grandmother
- 1958 Holiday in Tokyo
- 1958 A Boy and Three Mothers as Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
- 1956 The President's Boss
- 1957 Blooms of Hell
- 1951 The Blue Pearl as Noe's aunt
- 1952 Third Class Executives
- 1950 Escape from Prison as Shinkichi's mother
- 1952 Ikiru as Housewife
- 1957 Throne of Blood as Old Woman at castle
- 1952 Mother as Grandmother
- 1956 A Wife's Heart
- 1954 An Inn at Osaka
- 1941 Notes of an Itinerant Performer as Otane
- 1953 Where Chimneys Are Seen as Ranko
- 1953 Bot-chan as Mrs. Hagino
- 1958 Firefly Light
- 1956 Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai
- 1952 Okuni and Gohei as Mother
- 1959 A Whistle in My Heart
- 1953 Mr. Pu
- 1956 Shozo, a Cat and Two Women as Mrs. Shiokawa
- 1955 Marital Relations
- 1957 Snow Country as Teacher
- 1952 Sword for Hire
- 1957 Black River as Procuress
- 1955 Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple as Osugi
- 1952 Carmen's Innocent Love as Kumako Satake
- 1957 The Unbalanced Wheel
- 1954 The Cock Crows Twice
- 1958 The Days of Evil Women
- 1952 The Skin of the South as Old lady Onodera
- 1959 The Beast Shall Die
- 1952 The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- 1953 Husband and Wife
- 1953 Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
- 1957 Tokyo Twilight as Midwife
- 1957 A Case of Honor
- 1954 Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
- 1951 Boyhood
- 1955 The Big Ambition as Kiyo
- 1956 Jacks and Jills as Old maid
- 1953 My Wonderful Yellow Car as The old wife
- 1953 Their Father's Wife as Otatsu
- 1953 Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth as Tomé
- 1955 Love Never Fails
- 1952 Forbidden Path
- 1953 Sunflower Girl
- 1951 Elegy
- 1958 The Third President
- 1959 Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- 1959 Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- 1956 Street of Shame as Kadowaki Saku
- 1955 The Rookie Managers
- 1958 Who Is the Informer? as Tassel
- 1954 Five Sisters
- 1954 How the Bell of Liberty Rings as aunt
- 1954 12 Chapters About Women as Go Hamako
- 1958 Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
- 1957 The Shadow Daughter as Otsuta
- 1959 Fox and Raccoon as Landlady Matsu from Gondola
- 1957 A Town with a Mountain and River as Tamako Sugawara
- 1957 The Oil-Hell Murder
- 1959 Goodbye, Hello as Watanabe's mother
- 1956 Fighting Cha Cha Girl as Tane Grandma
- 1956 Blue Buds as Female teacher
- 1956 Engagement Ring as Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
- 1964 The Prodigal Son as His Mother
- 1957 The Men of Toho-ku as old woman
- 1955 Bride in the Kitchen
- 1957 The Chieko Story as Kei
- 1954 A Young Couple Oversleeps
- 1956 The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
- 1953 Moth Lamp
- 1957 Story of a Detective's Assistant as Shizu, Heikurō's mother
- 1957 Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
- 1956 Beyond The Stars as Yone
- 1957 Turtledove
- 1954 A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
- 1954 My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
- 1958 The Naked General
- 1956 Ohatsu's Unrequited Love
- 1956 Achako's Diary: Bride-Catching Test
- 1956 Careful Wife and Careless Wife: A Peaceful Couple
