Eiko Miyoshi
Date of birth: 1894-04-08
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Miyata Haru, Miyoshi Eiko, Haru Miyata
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's , Kinoshita Keisuke , Naruse Mikio , Ozu Yasujiro , Mizoguchi Kenji , Gosho Heinosuke , Ichikawa Kon, and Toyoda Shiro . She also appeared in many Toho salaryman comedies.
Movie Credits
The Hidden Fortress
1958-12-28
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a
Stray Dog
1949-10-17
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded
Escape Zone
1953-03-19
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dang
I Live in Fear
1955-11-22
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954-09-25
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a
The Idiot
1951-05-23
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo
The Lower Depths
1957-10-01
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag
Good Morning
1959-05-12
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration
No Regrets for Our Youth
1946-10-29
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an
White Fish
1953-08-05
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
1953-11-11
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class w
The President Talks Bank
1956-03-20
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher
Samurai Saga
1959-04-28
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no
Omatsuri hanjiro
1953-11-23
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958-12-07
1958 Japanese movie
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1951-12-21
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's weste
Assistant President
1958-01-03
Clothes of Deception
1951-01-13
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955-10-05
Holiday in Tokyo
1958-04-15
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s
A Boy and Three Mothers
1958-02-18
The President's Boss
1956-01-03
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's d
Jigoku bana
1957-06-25
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
The Blue Pearl
1951-08-03
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; liter
Third Class Executives
1952-05-30
1950s Japanese comedy.
Escape from Prison
1950-01-04
Ikiru
1952-10-09
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for
Throne of Blood
1957-01-15
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred
Mother
1952-06-12
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
A Wife's Heart
1956-05-03
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close
An Inn at Osaka
1954-04-20
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953-03-05
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
1941-03-16
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr
Bot-chan
1953-06-15
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Firefly Light
1958-03-18
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima
女大学野球狂時代
1956-07-26
Japanese comedy film.
Okuni and Gohei
1952-04-10
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in se
A Whistle in My Heart
1959-03-29
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reac
Mr. Pu
1953-04-15
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956-10-09
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat
Marital Relations
1955-09-13
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The
Snow Country
1957-04-30
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con
Sword for Hire
1952-05-22
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l
Black River
1957-10-23
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955-07-12
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky
Carmen's Innocent Love
1952-11-13
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi
The Unbalanced Wheel
1957-11-26
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
The Cock Crows Twice
1954-11-30
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
The Days of Evil Women
1958-11-30
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with
The Skin of the South
1952-02-28
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable
The Beast Shall Die
1959-06-09
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952-11-02
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr
Husband and Wife
1953-01-22
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
1953-01-09
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Tokyo Twilight
1957-04-30
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact
A Case of Honor
1957-02-20
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954-11-23
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c
Boyhood
1951-05-12
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
The Big Ambition
1955-03-30
Jacks and Jills
1956-08-15
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953-01-15
Their Father's Wife
1953-05-27
Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953-08-19
Love Never Fails
1955-04-01
Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keep
Forbidden Path
1952-07-08
Sunflower Girl
1953-03-26
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi,
Elegy
1951-02-22
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony
The Third President
1958-03-18
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
1959-01-03
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
1959-03-15
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Street of Shame
1956-03-18
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag
The Rookie Managers
1955-04-03
1955 Japanese movie
Who Is the Informer?
1958-11-18
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out
Five Sisters
1954-06-08
The story of five sisters.
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
1954-06-01
Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def
12 Chapters About Women
1954-11-23
Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta w
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
1958-03-11
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce
The Shadow Daughter
1957-06-05
Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak
Fox and Raccoon
1959-04-28
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and
A Town with a Mountain and River
1957-02-12
In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mist
The Oil-Hell Murder
1957-11-15
A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.
Goodbye, Hello
1959-01-03
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obliga
Fighting Cha Cha Girl
1956-05-24
After winning a singing contest, Momoko leaves her rural village for Tokyo to pursue her dream. Misu
Blue Buds
1956-05-03
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s
Engagement Ring
1956-11-20
A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds hi