Chieko Naniwa
Born: 1907-11-19 in Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan
Died: 1973-12-22
Known For: Acting
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 .
Filmography
1966
- A Circus Girl
- The River Yokobori as Kin
1965
- Taikouki as Naka
- True Osaka Grit
- Three Yakuza
- Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Osugi
- Snow Country as Blind masseuse
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")
- Nami kage
- My Wife
1964
1963
- Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Osugi
- Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Madam
- The Third Will as Yoshiko
- 18 Roughs as Seichii's Mother
- Uogashi no senpū musume
- Madame Aki
- We Are Salarymen as Oshige
- Tale of A Company Boss Pt.5 as Ume Shimizu
1962
- Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Osugi
- The Fencing Master as Old woman
- The Body
- This Year's Love
- Shin kitsune to tanuki
- Good Rascals as Omon
- Till Tomorrow Is
- Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
- Ame no Kudan-zaka
- Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
- The Paper Crane
- Yakuza Official
- In Search of Mother as Obah
- 次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
1961
- The End of Summer as Sasaki Tsune
- The Preacher of Love
- Miyamoto Musashi as Osugi
- Girls of the Night as Kumeju
- Fine Man
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 as Otoshi
- Bad Reputation Returns as Ito Aso
- Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
- Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
- Osaka Tough
- Moonlight in the Rain
- 京化粧
- The Harbor Lights
- 続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
1960
- New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)
- New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
- Shinran
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Natsukawa Chiyo
- Sazae And Aunt Apron
- Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Chiyo
- Bantōhan to detchidon
- Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
- 続べらんめぇ芸者
1959
- Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka as Oen
- Flower Shop Curtain
- Temptation on Glamour Island as Shige Sasaki
- New Third-Class Executive as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
- Sazae-san's Marriage
- The Story of Iron Arm Inao as Kameno Inao
- Gentle Breeze
- Hawk of the North
- Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki as Oharu
- Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
- Evil Man of Edo
- Room for Let as O-Mino
- Unmarried
1958
- Equinox Flower as Hatsu Sasaki
- The Capital of Love as Umeko Yoshii
- Chance Meeting as Yone
- The Shop Curtain
- Kunisada Chuji
- Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki as Sueno
- Her Son Came Back
- Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
- Tainted Flowers
- Sazae's Engagement Trip
1957
- Throne of Blood as Old Ghost Woman
- Snow Country as Otatsu
- An Osaka Story
- Price of Beauty as Natsu Morishita
- Geisha in the Old City as Ohatsu
- On Wings of Love as Umeko Yoshioka
- The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
- Evening Calm
- Hadaka no Machi
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Matsumura Sei
- Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Matsumura Sei
- The Men of Toho-ku as Oei
- The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Proprietress of Takara-ya
- The Blue Mountains as Mistress of Tamayaya
1956
- Shozo, a Cat and Two Women as Orin
- The Maiden Courtesan
- Zangiku monogatari as Omoto
- The Swamp as Otoki
- Sound in the Mist as Chieko Naniwa
- Women in Prison as Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner
- Sisters of Gion
- The Sentimental Idiot
- The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
1955
1954
- Sansho the Bailiff as Ubatake
- Chikamatsu Monogatari as Okô
- Twenty-Four Eyes as Meshiya no Kamisan
- The Woman in the Rumor as Osaki
- Beautiful Gonpati as およし
- 浮かれ狐千本櫻 as Otsuji
- The Garden of Women
- 快盗三人吉三 as 小紫の局
- お役者変化 as 母そよ
- Maiko monogatari
- Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1953
1952
- Violence
- Tsukigata Hanpeita
- 紺屋高尾
- Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo as Midori, the mother
- 滝の白糸