Eiko Miyoshi
Acting
Born April 8, 1894, Tokyo, Japon
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.
Filmography
- 1964The Prodigal Son — His Mother
- 1959A Whistle in My Heart
- 1959Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
- 1959Fox and Raccoon — Landlady Matsu from Gondola
- 1959Good Morning — Mitsue Haraguchi
- 1959Goodbye, Hello — Watanabe's mother
- 1959Samurai Saga — Okuni
- 1959The Beast Shall Die
- 1959Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II
- 1958A Boy and Three Mothers — Kayo Nakahara, Seiji's mother
- 1958Assistant President
- 1958Firefly Light
- 1958Holiday in Tokyo
- 1958Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
- 1958The Days of Evil Women
- 1958The Hidden Fortress — Maid (uncredited)
- 1958The Naked General
- 1958The Third President
- 1958Who Is the Informer? — Tassel
- 1958Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
- 1957A Case of Honor
- 1957A Town with a Mountain and River — Tamako Sugawara
- 1957Black River — Procuress
- 1957Blooms of Hell
- 1957Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
- 1957Snow Country — Teacher
- 1957Story of a Detective's Assistant — Shizu, Heikurō's mother
- 1957The Chieko Story — Kei
- 1957The Lower Depths — Asa, Tomekichi's Wife
- 1957The Men of Toho-ku — old woman
- 1957The Oil-Hell Murder
- 1957The Shadow Daughter — Otsuta
- 1957The Unbalanced Wheel
- 1957Throne of Blood — Old Woman at castle
- 1957Tokyo Twilight — Midwife
- 1957Turtledove
- 1956A Wife's Heart
- 1956Achako's Diary: Bride-Catching Test
- 1956Beyond The Stars — Yone
- 1956Blue Buds — Female teacher
- 1956Careful Wife and Careless Wife: A Peaceful Couple
- 1956Engagement Ring — Tsuruyo (Tokio’s grandmother)
- 1956Fighting Cha Cha Girl — Tane Grandma
- 1956Jacks and Jills — Old maid
- 1956Ohatsu's Unrequited Love
- 1956Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai
- 1956Shozo, a Cat and Two Women — Mrs. Shiokawa
- 1956Street of Shame — Kadowaki Saku
- 1956The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
- 1956The President Talks Bank
- 1956The President's Boss
- 1955Bride in the Kitchen
- 1955I Live in Fear — Toyo Nakajima
- 1955Love Never Fails
- 1955Marital Relations
- 1955Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple — Osugi
- 1955The Big Ambition — Kiyo
- 1955The Rookie Managers
- 1955Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree — Ayuta's grandmother
- 195412 Chapters About Women — Go Hamako
- 1954A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
- 1954A Young Couple Oversleeps
- 1954An Inn at Osaka
- 1954Five Sisters
- 1954How the Bell of Liberty Rings — aunt
- 1954My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
- 1954Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto — Osugi
- 1954Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
- 1954The Cock Crows Twice
- 1953Bot-chan — Mrs. Hagino
- 1953Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth — Tomé
- 1953Escape Zone
- 1953First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband — Mrs. Hatoko
- 1953Husband and Wife
- 1953Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
- 1953Moth Lamp
- 1953Mr. Pu
- 1953My Wonderful Yellow Car — The old wife
- 1953Omatsuri hanjiro
- 1953Sunflower Girl
- 1953Their Father's Wife — Otatsu
- 1953Where Chimneys Are Seen — Ranko
- 1953White Fish — Nan
- 1952Carmen's Innocent Love — Kumako Satake
- 1952Forbidden Path
- 1952Ikiru — Housewife
- 1952Mother — Grandmother
- 1952Okuni and Gohei — Mother
- 1952Sword for Hire
- 1952The Skin of the South — Old lady Onodera
- 1952The Woman Who Touched the Legs
- 1952Third Class Executives
- 1951Boyhood
- 1951Clothes of Deception
- 1951Elegy
- 1951The Blue Pearl — Noe's aunt
- 1951The Idiot — Madame Kayama
- 1951Who Knows a Woman's Heart
- 1950Escape from Prison — Shinkichi's mother
- 1949Stray Dog — Harumi's mother
- 1946No Regrets for Our Youth — Madame Yagihara
- 1941Notes of an Itinerant Performer — Otane