Chieko Higashiyama

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 thenfamous for modern Japanese plays and translated performances of Western playwrights Higashiyama appeared in many stage productions most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in Chekhovs 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