Eiko Miyoshi

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 Kurosawas first postwar film No Regrets for My Youth From then on through the 1950s she was cast in a succession of films by Japans 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