Eiko Miyoshi

Eiko Miyoshi (69)

1894-04-08 - 1963-07-28 | Tokyo, Japan

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's , Kinoshita Keisuke , Naruse Mikio , Ozu Yasujiro , Mizoguchi Kenji , Gosho Heinosuke , Ichikawa Kon, and Toyoda Shiro . She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.

On Movies

  • The Beast Shall Die
  • Good Morning
  • Samurai Saga
  • Fox and Raccoon
  • A Whistle in My Heart
  • Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
  • Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
  • Goodbye, Hello
  • The Hidden Fortress
  • Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
  • The Days of Evil Women
  • Holiday in Tokyo
  • Firefly Light
  • The Third President
  • Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
  • The Unbalanced Wheel
  • The Oil-Hell Murder
  • Black River
  • The Lower Depths
  • Jigoku bana
  • The Shadow Daughter
  • Snow Country
  • Tokyo Twilight
  • A Case of Honor
  • A Town with a Mountain and River
  • Throne of Blood
  • Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
  • 女大学野球狂時代
  • A Wife's Heart
  • The President Talks Bank
  • Street of Shame
  • I Live in Fear
  • Marital Relations
  • Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
  • Love Never Fails
  • Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
  • 12 Chapters About Women
  • Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
  • Five Sisters
  • How the Bell of Liberty Rings
  • An Inn at Osaka
  • First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
  • White Fish
  • Bot-chan
  • Mr. Pu
  • Sunflower Girl
  • Where Chimneys Are Seen
  • Husband and Wife
  • Carmen's Innocent Love
  • The Woman Who Touched the Legs
  • Ikiru
  • Mother
  • Third Class Executives
  • Sword for Hire
  • Okuni and Gohei
  • The Blue Pearl
  • The Idiot
  • Boyhood
  • Clothes of Deception
  • Stray Dog
  • No Regrets for Our Youth
  • Notes of an Itinerant Performer

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