Eiko Miyoshi
Acting · Born 1894-04-08 · age 69 at death · 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.
Titles
Ikiru
Throne of Blood
The Hidden Fortress
Stray Dog
Good Morning
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Tokyo Twilight
Street of Shame
The Lower Depths
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
The Idiot
I Live in Fear
No Regrets for Our Youth
Black River
Mother
Samurai Saga
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Carmen's Innocent Love
An Inn at Osaka
A Wife's Heart
Okuni and Gohei
Boyhood
Snow Country
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Sword for Hire
The Beast Shall Die
Husband and Wife
A Whistle in My Heart
Marital Relations
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Clothes of Deception
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Five Sisters
Mr. Pu
The Blue Pearl
Bot-chan
The Cock Crows Twice
The Skin of the South
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Goodbye, Hello
White Fish
Omatsuri hanjiro
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Assistant President
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Holiday in Tokyo
A Boy and Three Mothers
The President's Boss
Jigoku bana
Third Class Executives
Escape from Prison
Firefly Light
The Unbalanced Wheel
The Days of Evil Women
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Jacks and Jills
Their Father's Wife
Youth of Heiji Senigata