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Chieko Naniwa

Born 1907-11-19

Died 1973-12-22

📍 Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan

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 .

Filmography 142

Lullaby for a Tough Guy

The Woman Gambler's Supplication

Woman Gambler Is Coming

Devil in My Flesh

Shogun and His Mistress 2

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The River Yokobori

True Osaka Grit

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

as Blind masseuse

President's Ninja Trick Book Part II

as Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")

Ai, sono kiseki

Money Is Most Important

続・図々しい奴

I'm a Bodyguard

An Impudent Man

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple

We Are Salarymen

as Seichii's Mother

Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style

Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５

Uogashi no senpū musume

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

The Paper Crane

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

The Fencing Master

Shin kitsune to tanuki

Yakuza Official

Ame no Kudan-zaka

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

Till Tomorrow Is

In Search of Mother

This Year's Love

次郎長社長と石松社員威風堂々

Bad Reputation Returns

The End of Summer

as Sasaki Tsune

Girls of the Night

Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō

Miyamoto Musashi

Moonlight in the Rain

続々々番頭はんと丁稚どんチャンポン旅行

The Harbor Lights

The Preacher of Love

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon

Sazae And Aunt Apron

Zoku bantōhan to detchidon

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

New Third Class Executive: Husband Education

as Tsuruko Miyaguchi

Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success

Bantōhan to detchidon

New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller

as Tsuruko Miyaguchi

続べらんめぇ芸者

Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes

as Natsukawa Chiyo

The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

as Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife

Evil Man of Edo

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

New Third-Class Executive

as Tsuruko Miyaguchi

Hawk of the North

The Story of Iron Arm Inao

Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku

Flower Shop Curtain

Temptation on Glamour Island

as Shige Sasaki

Sazae-san's Marriage

Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki

as Hatsu Sasaki

Sazae's Engagement Trip

Tainted Flowers

The Shop Curtain

Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki

Her Son Came Back

The Capital of Love

as Umeko Yoshii

The Blue Mountains Part 2

as Proprietress of Takara-ya

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2

as Matsumura Sei

The Blue Mountains

as Mistress of Tamayaya

Geisha in the Old City

The Men of Toho-ku

Hadaka no Machi

On Wings of Love

as Umeko Yoshioka

The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood

Diary of a Successful Salaryman

as Matsumura Sei

Price of Beauty

as Natsu Morishita

Throne of Blood

as Old Ghost Woman

Sound in the Mist

as Chieko Naniwa

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

Women in Prison

as Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner

Sisters of Gion

Zangiku monogatari

The Sentimental Idiot

The Maiden Courtesan

So Young, So Bright

Marital Relations

Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi

The Rookie Managers

八州遊侠伝白鷺三味線

浮かれ狐千本櫻

Chikamatsu Monogatari

Twenty-Four Eyes

as Meshiya no Kamisan

The Woman in the Rumor

快盗三人吉三

as 小紫の局

Sansho the Bailiff

The Garden of Women

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

Beautiful Gonpati

Maiko monogatari

お役者変化

Six Men Mustered in Great Edo

Ghost of Saga Mansion

Zoku Tange Sazen

お役者小僧

Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo

as Midori, the mother

Tsukigata Hanpeita

The Gion Tempest