Eiko Miyoshi
ActingEiko 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's , Kinoshita Keisuke , Naruse Mikio , Ozu Yasujiro , Mizoguchi Kenji , Gosho Heinosuke , Ichikawa Kon, and Toyoda Shiro . She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Known For
Ikiru
Housewife
Throne of Blood
Old Woman at castle
The Hidden Fortress
Maid (uncredited)
Good Morning
Mitsue Haraguchi
Stray Dog
Harumi's mother
The Idiot
Madame Kayama
Tokyo Twilight
Midwife
Street of Shame
Kadowaki Saku
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Osugi
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Yagihara
Filmography — Acting
Ikiru
Housewife
Throne of Blood
Old Woman at castle
The Hidden Fortress
Maid (uncredited)
Good Morning
Mitsue Haraguchi
Stray Dog
Harumi's mother
The Idiot
Madame Kayama
Tokyo Twilight
Midwife
Street of Shame
Kadowaki Saku
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Osugi
No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Yagihara
I Live in Fear
Toyo Nakajima
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Osugi
The Lower Depths
Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
A Wife's Heart
Holiday in Tokyo
Mother
Grandmother
Snow Country
Teacher
Who Is the Informer?
Tassel
Clothes of Deception
Goodbye, Hello
Watanabe's mother
Black River
Sword for Hire
The Blue Pearl
Noe's aunt
The Beast Shall Die
Husband and Wife
Firefly Light
Mr. Pu
Omatsuri hanjiro
Marital Relations
Five Sisters
My Wonderful Yellow Car
The old wife
Okuni and Gohei
Mother
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Ayuta's grandmother
A Whistle in My Heart
Elegy
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Sunflower Girl
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
An Inn at Osaka
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Ranko
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
12 Chapters About Women
Go Hamako
Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
The Third President
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Carmen's Innocent Love
Kumako Satake
White Fish
Nan
The President's Boss
Assistant President
Escape from Prison
Shinkichi's mother
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Mrs. Shiokawa
The Shadow Daughter
Jigoku bana
Fox and Raccoon
Landlady Matsu from Gondola
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Bot-chan
Mrs. Hagino
The President Talks Bank
Escape Zone
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
aunt
Forbidden Path
The Skin of the South
Old lady Onodera
The Unbalanced Wheel
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Tomé
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Jacks and Jills
Old maid
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Mrs. Hatoko
Their Father's Wife
Otatsu
The Big Ambition
Kiyo
Boyhood
Love Never Fails
A Boy and Three Mothers
Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
The Rookie Managers
A Town with a Mountain and River
Tamako Sugawara
The Days of Evil Women
The Oil-Hell Murder
The Men of Toho-ku
old woman
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Samurai Saga
Okuni
The Cock Crows Twice
Blue Buds
Female teacher
A Case of Honor
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Otane
女大学野球狂時代
Fighting Cha Cha Girl
Tane Grandma
Engagement Ring
Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
Third Class Executives
The Prodigal Son
His Mother