Name
Chieko Naniwa
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1907-11-19
Deathday
1973-12-22 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan
Biography
Naniwa Chieko (real name: Nanko Kikuno, November 19, 1907 – December 22 , 1973) was a Japanese actress.
Due to poverty, she was unable to receive an elementary school education and struggled with being illiterate. Later, through her own efforts, she learned to read and write, and overcame illiteracy. She appeared in works such as A Geisha, Throne of Blood, Equinox Flower, and Twenty-Four Eyes. She appeared in films by many of the great directors of her time.
She died of gastrointestinal bleeding on December 22, 1973, at the age of 66. After her death, she was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure , Fourth Class .
Known For
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Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spiri...
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Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declare...
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In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and ...
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When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair w...
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The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finance...
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In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she ...
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In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from ...
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From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanes...
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In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out...
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It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himse...
- 1967 Shogun and His Mistress 2
- 1958 The Shop Curtain
- 1962 次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
- 1961 The End of Summer as Sasaki Tsune
- 1958 Equinox Flower as Hatsu Sasaki
- 1954 Chikamatsu Monogatari as Okô
- 1962 Till Tomorrow Is
- 1959 Sazae-san's Marriage as Chie Nishino
- 1959 Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife as Chiyoyo Nishino (Sazae's aunt)
- 1958 Sazae's Engagement Trip as Chie Nishino
- 1962 Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
- 1960 Sazae And Aunt Apron as Chie
- 1954 The Woman in the Rumor as Osaki
- 1960 Shinran
- 1959 Hawk of the North
- 1952 Tsukigata Hanpeita
- 1966 The River Yokobori as Kin
- 1961 Osaka Tough
- 1962 Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
- 1965 Three Yakuza
- 1961 Miyamoto Musashi as Osugi
- 1959 Flower Shop Curtain
- 1962 The Body
- 1962 Ame no Kudan-zaka
- 1962 Yakuza Official
- 1965 Nami kage
- 1954 The Garden of Women
- 1963 18 Roughs as Seichii's Mother
- 1953 お役者小僧 as お幸
- 1954 お役者変化 as 母そよ
- 1954 Beautiful Gonpati as およし
- 1954 快盗三人吉三 as 小紫の局
- 1955 八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線 as お金
- 1968 Three Rogues
- 1957 Evening Calm
- 1956 Sisters of Gion
- 1952 紺屋高尾
- 1958 Kunisada Chuji
- 1962 Shin kitsune to tanuki
- 1963 Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５ as Ume Shimizu
- 1957 Hadaka no Machi
- 1960 The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
- 1957 Throne of Blood as Old Ghost Woman
- 1954 Sansho the Bailiff as Ubatake
- 1964 Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Osugi
- 1963 Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Osugi
- 1962 Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Osugi
- 1965 Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Osugi
- 1954 Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
- 1960 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
- 1962 The Paper Crane
- 1958 Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki as Sueno
- 1958 Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
- 1959 Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki as Oharu
- 1953 Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage as Omoto
- 1952 Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo as Midori, the mother
- 1957 Geisha in the Old City as Ohatsu
- 1959 Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka as Oen
- 1955 Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
- 1962 The Fencing Master as Old woman
- 1968 Devil in My Flesh
- 1965 Snow Country as Blind masseuse
- 1956 Shozo, a Cat and Two Women as Orin
- 1956 The Swamp as Otoki
- 1961 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 as Otoshi
- 1960 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- 1957 An Osaka Story
- 1957 Snow Country as Otatsu
- 1968 Woman Gambler Is Coming
- 1968 The Woman Gambler's Supplication
- 1961 Fine Man
- 1959 Room for Let as O-Mino
- 1962 In Search of Mother as Obah
- 1965 My Wife
- 1954 浮かれ狐千本櫻 as Otsuji
- 1959 Gentle Breeze
- 1956 The Maiden Courtesan
- 1964 An Impudent Man
- 1962 Good Rascals as Omon
- 1966 A Circus Girl
- 1958 Chance Meeting as Yone
- 1957 Price of Beauty as Natsu Morishita
- 1972 Lullaby for a Tough Guy
- 1965 True Osaka Grit
- 1959 Evil Man of Edo
- 1958 Her Son Came Back
- 1958 The Capital of Love as Umeko Yoshii
- 1961 The Harbor Lights
- 1959 The Story of Iron Arm Inao as Kameno Inao
- 1962 This Year's Love
- 1954 Twenty-Four Eyes as Meshiya no Kamisan
- 1953 Ghost of Saga Mansion
- 1956 Women in Prison as Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner
- 1963 The Third Will as Yoshiko
- 1961 Girls of the Night as Kumeju
- 1953 A Geisha as Okimi
- 1958 Tainted Flowers
- 1957 On Wings of Love as Umeko Yoshioka
- 1956 Sound in the Mist as Chieko Naniwa
- 1959 Temptation on Glamour Island as Shige Sasaki
- 1961 Bad Reputation Returns as Ito Aso
- 1967 The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
- 1955 Marital Relations
- 1963 Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Madam
- 1956 Zangiku monogatari as Omoto
- 1956 The Sentimental Idiot
- 1952 Violence
- 1964 I'm a Bodyguard
- 1961 Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
- 1961 The Preacher of Love
- 1961 Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
- 1953 Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
- 1963 Uogashi no senpū musume
- 1955 The Rookie Managers
- 1961 京化粧
- 1960 続べらんめぇ芸者
- 1955 So Young, So Bright as Oshin
- 1954 Maiko monogatari
- 1961 続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
- 1961 Moonlight in the Rain
- 1957 The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
- 1964 Ai, sono kiseki
- 1959 New Third-Class Executive as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- 1960 New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)
- 1959 Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
- 1960 New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- 1960 New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- 1965 President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")
- 1960 Bantōhan to detchidon
- 1958 The Gion Tempest as Orin
- 1963 Madame Aki as Setsuko
- 1960 Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
- 1960 Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Natsukawa Chiyo
- 1953 Zoku Tange Sazen
- 1960 Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Chiyo
- 1963 We Are Salarymen as Oshige
- 1957 Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Matsumura Sei
- 1964 An Impudent Man 2
- 1957 Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Matsumura Sei
- 1957 The Blue Mountains as Mistress of Tamayaya
- 1957 The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Proprietress of Takara-ya
- 1952 Taki no Shiraito as Midori
- 1957 The Men of Toho-ku as Oei
- 1964 Money Is Most Important
- 1959 Unmarried
- 1955 Detour to Love as Yasu
- 1955 So Deep in My Heart
- 1956 The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
- 1956 All Sold Out
- 1963 Dobuike as Tadae Horikawa
- 1955 Maiko sanjūshi
- 1954 Hana to hatō
- 1955 First Love Waltz
- 1963 Maiko-han
- 1964 My Lover
- 1955 Love at Forty
- 1953 Asama no karasu
- 1953 Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
- 1953 Seki no yatappe
- 1954 Hana no sando gasa
- 1957 The Bride Is Waiting
- 1954 Yoidore nitōryū
- 1954 Hana no nagadosu
- 1963 New Marital Relations
- 1954 Tekka bugyō
- 1954 Yome to yobarete mada mitsuki
- 1958 Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day
- 1958 Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: There are Five Men and Seven Women in the Family
- 1956 The More-You-Fall-In-Love Story
- 1960 The Five Jolly Thieves
- 1958 Scops-Owl Sermon
- 1965 Taikouki ( 52 episodes ) as Naka
