
Eiko Miyoshi
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.
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Stray Dog

I Live in Fear

Tokyo Twilight

The Lower Depths

The Idiot

Street of Shame

No Regrets for Our Youth

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Careful Wife and Careless Wife: A Peaceful Couple

Boyhood

The Blue Pearl

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Mother

A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime

The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji

Sword for Hire

Snow Country

Marital Relations

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

The Cock Crows Twice

Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion

Fox and Raccoon

Husband and Wife

A Case of Honor

Black River

The Men of Toho-ku

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

Ohatsu's Unrequited Love

Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen

Story of a Detective's Assistant

The Naked General

The Beast Shall Die

Holiday in Tokyo

Clothes of Deception

Elegy

The Days of Evil Women

A Whistle in My Heart

A Wife's Heart

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

Samurai Saga

Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period

Carmen's Innocent Love

Who Is the Informer?

Sunflower Girl

Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II

Beyond The Stars

Turtledove

The President Talks Bank

The Shadow Daughter

Okuni and Gohei

The Third President

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Mr. Pu

Escape from Prison

Engagement Ring

Moth Lamp

Who Knows a Woman's Heart

Assistant President

Escape Zone

Bot-chan

Blooms of Hell

Five Sisters

The Skin of the South

Firefly Light

My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men

The President's Boss

The Chieko Story

My Wonderful Yellow Car

A Boy and Three Mothers

The Unbalanced Wheel

A Town with a Mountain and River

Omatsuri hanjiro

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

An Inn at Osaka

Love Never Fails

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

The Oil-Hell Murder

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Forbidden Path

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband

The Big Ambition

12 Chapters About Women

Jacks and Jills

Their Father's Wife

Goodbye, Hello

Blue Buds

Third Class Executives

Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai

The Rookie Managers

White Fish

Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth




