Chieko Naniwa
Acting • Born 1907-11-19 – Died 1973-12-22
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
143 credits
Shogun and His Mistress 2
Movie • 1967
The Shop Curtain
Movie • 1958
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Movie • 1962
The End of Summer
Movie • 1961
Sasaki Tsune
Equinox Flower
Movie • 1958
Hatsu Sasaki
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Movie • 1954
Okô
As Long as There's Tomorrow
Movie • 1962
Sazae-san's Marriage
Movie • 1959
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Movie • 1959
Sazae's Engagement Trip
Movie • 1958
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Movie • 1962
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Movie • 1960
The Woman in the Rumor
Movie • 1954
Osaki
Shinran
Movie • 1960
Hawk of the North
Movie • 1959
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie • 1952
The River Yokobori
Movie • 1966
Kin
Osaka Tough
Movie • 1961
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Movie • 1962
Three Yakuza
Movie • 1965
Miyamoto Musashi
Movie • 1961
Osugi
Flower Shop Curtain
Movie • 1959
The Body
Movie • 1962
Ame no Kudan-zaka
Movie • 1962
Yakuza Official
Movie • 1962
Nami kage
Movie • 1965
The Garden of Women
Movie • 1954
18 Roughs
Movie • 1963
Seichii's Mother
お役者小僧
Movie • 1953
お幸
お役者変化
Movie • 1954
母そよ
快盗三人吉三
Movie • 1954
小紫の局
Beautiful Gonpati
Movie • 1954
およし
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Movie • 1955
お金
Three Rogues
Movie • 1968
Evening Calm
Movie • 1957
Sisters of Gion
Movie • 1956
紺屋高尾
Movie • 1952
Kunisada Chuji
Movie • 1958
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Movie • 1962
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Movie • 1963
Ume Shimizu
Hadaka no Machi
Movie • 1957
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
Movie • 1960
Throne of Blood
Movie • 1957
Old Ghost Woman
Sansho the Bailiff
Movie • 1954
Ubatake
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Movie • 1965
Osugi
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Movie • 1963
Osugi
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Movie • 1962
Osugi
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Movie • 1964
Osugi
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Movie • 1954
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Movie • 1960
The Paper Crane
Movie • 1962
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Movie • 1958
Sueno
Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
Movie • 1959
Oharu
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
Movie • 1958
Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
Movie • 1953
Omoto
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Movie • 1952
Midori, the mother
Geisha in the Old City
Movie • 1957
Ohatsu
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Movie • 1959
Oen
Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
Movie • 1955
The Fencing Master
Movie • 1962
Old woman
Devil in My Flesh
Movie • 1968
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Movie • 1956
Orin
Snow Country
Movie • 1965
Blind masseuse
The Swamp
Movie • 1956
Otoki
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Movie • 1961
Otoshi
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Movie • 1960
An Osaka Story
Movie • 1957
Snow Country
Movie • 1957
Otatsu
Woman Gambler Is Coming
Movie • 1968
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Movie • 1968
Fine Man
Movie • 1961
Room for Let
Movie • 1959
O-Mino
In Search of Mother
Movie • 1962
Obah
My Wife
Movie • 1965
浮かれ狐千本櫻
Movie • 1954
Otsuji
Gentle Breeze
Movie • 1959
The Maiden Courtesan
Movie • 1956
An Impudent Man
Movie • 1964
Good Rascals
Movie • 1962
Omon
A Circus Girl
Movie • 1966
Chance Meeting
Movie • 1958
Yone
Price of Beauty
Movie • 1957
Natsu Morishita
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
Movie • 1972
True Osaka Grit
Movie • 1965
Evil Man of Edo
Movie • 1959
Her Son Came Back
Movie • 1958
The Capital of Love
Movie • 1958
Umeko Yoshii
The Harbor Lights
Movie • 1961
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Movie • 1959
Kameno Inao
This Year's Love
Movie • 1962
Twenty-Four Eyes
Movie • 1954
Meshiya no Kamisan
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Movie • 1953
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner
The Third Will
Movie • 1963
Yoshiko
Girls of the Night
Movie • 1961
Kumeju
A Geisha
Movie • 1953
Okimi
Tainted Flowers
Movie • 1958
On Wings of Love
Movie • 1957
Umeko Yoshioka
Sound in the Mist
Movie • 1956
Chieko Naniwa
Temptation on Glamour Island
Movie • 1959
Shige Sasaki
Bad Reputation Returns
Movie • 1961
Ito Aso
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Movie • 1967
Marital Relations
Movie • 1955
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Movie • 1963
Madam
Zangiku monogatari
Movie • 1956
Omoto
The Sentimental Idiot
Movie • 1956
Violence
Movie • 1952
I'm a Bodyguard
Movie • 1964
Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
Movie • 1961
The Preacher of Love
Movie • 1961
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
Movie • 1961
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
Movie • 1953
Uogashi no senpū musume
Movie • 1963
The Rookie Managers
Movie • 1955
京化粧
Movie • 1961
続べらんめぇ芸者
Movie • 1960
So Young, So Bright
Movie • 1955
Maiko monogatari
Movie • 1954
続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
Movie • 1961
Moonlight in the Rain
Movie • 1961
The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
Movie • 1957
Ai, sono kiseki
Movie • 1964
New Third-Class Executive
Movie • 1959
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Movie • 1960
Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)
Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
Movie • 1959
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
Movie • 1960
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Movie • 1960
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Movie • 1965
Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")
Bantōhan to detchidon
Movie • 1960
The Gion Tempest
Movie
Orin
Madame Aki
Movie • 1963
Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
Movie • 1960
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
Movie • 1960
Natsukawa Chiyo
Zoku Tange Sazen
Movie • 1953
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
Movie • 1960
Chiyo
We Are Salarymen
Movie • 1963
Oshige
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
Movie • 1957
Matsumura Sei
続・図々しい奴
Movie • 1964
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Movie • 1957
Matsumura Sei
The Blue Mountains
Movie • 1957
Mistress of Tamayaya
The Blue Mountains Part 2
Movie • 1957
Proprietress of Takara-ya
滝の白糸
Movie • 1952
Taikouki
TV • 1965
Naka