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Chieko Higashiyama
東山 千栄子
Chieko Higashiyama in the 1953 film Tokyo Story
Born	30 September 1890 Chiba, Japan
Died	8 May 1980(1980-05-08) (aged 89) Yokohama, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1925–1980

Chieko Higashiyama (東山 千栄子, Higashiyama Chieko, 30 September 1890 – 8 May 1980) was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1936 to 1967.

Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow.^[1] In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress and began training at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō.^[1] She appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard.^[1] She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in a poll of film directors by Sight and Sound magazine.^[2]

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1956)
• Order of the Precious Crown, 4th Class, Wisteria (1965)
• Person of Cultural Merit (1966)
• Order of the Precious Crown, 3rd class, Butterfly (1974)

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