Eiko Miyoshi has grown into a veteran actress whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. If one title has to stand in for the rest, it is 'Ikiru'. 'Throne of Blood' is the other credit that tends to come up. By genre, drama dominates the list. Neither the cinema nor the television half of the career can be called the side project.
Eiko Miyoshi
Actress
69 years (Apr 8, 1894 – Jul 28, 1963)Tokyo, Japon
Eiko Miyoshi has grown into a veteran actress whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. If one title has to stand in for the rest, it is 'Ikiru'. 'Throne of Blood' is the other credit that tends to come up. By genre, drama dominates the list. Neither the cinema nor the television half of the career can be called the side project.
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.