BIO

Eiko Miyoshi (三好栄子) was born Haru Morita (宮田ハル) in Tokyo, Japan, in 1894.

She began her stage career in 1915 after graduating from drama school.

Miyoshi made her film debut in 1941, at the age of 47, for Shouchiku.   For her next picture, in 1946, she joined the director Akira Kurosawa’s stable of actors and appeared in several of his films.   Her last film role was in 1959.   She then retired from the industry due to illness.

Her husband was the film producer Nobuyoshi Morita (森田信義) whom she married in 1925.   He died in a car accident in 1951 after colliding with a train.

She died of natural causes in 1963 at the age of 69.

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