Chieko Higashiyama Biography
Chieko Higashiyama (September 30, 1890 – May 8, 1980) was a Japanese actress. Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress. She trained at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō, a pioneering theater then-famous for modern Japanese plays and translated performances of Western playwrights.
Higashiyama appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.
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Chieko Higashiyama Quotes
Reflections on Loss and Memory
Tomi Hirayama:
What a treat to sleep in my dead son's bed.
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Reflections on Life and Future Aspirations
Tomi Hirayama: [to her grandson Isamu; Isamu doesn't answer and continues to pick grass]
What are you going to be when you grow up? A doctor like your father? By the time you become a doctor, I wonder if I'll still be here.
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