Eiko Miyoshi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1894-04-08
Locus Natus: Tokyo, Japan
Et ut: Miyata Haru, Miyoshi Eiko, Haru Miyata, Эйко Миёси
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...
release : 1958.12.28popularis : 11.173
Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
release : 1949.10.17popularis : 13.794
Escape Zone
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...
release : 1953.03.19popularis : 1.246
I Live in Fear
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
release : 1955.11.22popularis : 8.723
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
release : 1954.09.25popularis : 7.413
The Idiot
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...
release : 1951.05.23popularis : 9.458
The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...
release : 1957.10.01popularis : 5.949
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
release : 1959.05.12popularis : 7.496
No Regrets for Our Youth
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
release : 1946.10.29popularis : 6.622
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...
release : 1953.11.11popularis : 1.215
White Fish
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...
release : 1953.08.05popularis : 1.16
The President Talks Bank
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
release : 1956.03.20popularis : 0.663
Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...
release : 1959.04.28popularis : 1.055
Omatsuri hanjiro
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...
release : 1953.11.23popularis : 1.427
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
release : 1951.12.21popularis : 1.52
Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
release : 1951.01.13popularis : 1.911
A Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...
release : 1958.04.15popularis : 1.91
The President's Boss
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
release : 1956.01.03popularis : 1.224
Jigoku bana
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
release : 1957.06.25popularis : 0.914
The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...
release : 1951.08.03popularis : 1.765
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
release : 1952.10.09popularis : 16.664
Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...
release : 1957.01.15popularis : 12.497
Mother
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
release : 1952.06.12popularis : 3.617
A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...
release : 1956.05.03popularis : 1.877
An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...
release : 1954.04.20popularis : 6.084
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...
release : 1941.03.16popularis : 1.415
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
release : 1953.03.05popularis : 2.21
Bot-chan
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
release : 1953.06.15popularis : 2.095
Firefly Light
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...
release : 1958.03.18popularis : 1.6
Okuni and Gohei
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...
release : 1952.04.10popularis : 2.331
A Whistle in My Heart
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
release : 1959.03.29popularis : 2.709
Mr. Pu
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
release : 1953.04.15popularis : 2.066
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
release : 1956.10.09popularis : 2.617
Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...
release : 1955.09.13popularis : 1.167
Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...
release : 1957.04.30popularis : 1.831
Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and...
release : 1952.05.22popularis : 3.728
Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...
release : 1957.10.23popularis : 7.567
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...
release : 1955.07.12popularis : 6.56
Carmen's Innocent Love
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
release : 1952.11.13popularis : 1.932
The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
release : 1957.07.03popularis : 2.429
The Cock Crows Twice
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
release : 1954.11.30popularis : 1.422
The Days of Evil Women
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
release : 1958.11.30popularis : 1.903
The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...
release : 1952.02.28popularis : 1.21
The Beast Shall Die
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...
release : 1959.06.09popularis : 1.289
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...
release : 1952.11.02popularis : 1.101
Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
release : 1953.01.22popularis : 1.367
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
release : 1953.01.09popularis : 1.281
Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
release : 1957.04.30popularis : 7.614
A Case of Honor
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...
release : 1957.02.20popularis : 1.75
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
release : 1954.11.23popularis : 0.937
Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
release : 1951.05.12popularis : 2.067
Love Never Fails
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...
release : 1955.04.01popularis : 0.743
Sunflower Girl
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...
release : 1953.03.26popularis : 3.216
Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...
release : 1951.02.22popularis : 1.321
The Third President
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
release : 1958.03.18popularis : 1.555
社長太平記
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
release : 1959.01.03popularis : 1.099
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
release : 1959.03.15popularis : 1.285
Street of Shame
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
release : 1956.03.18popularis : 6.383