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 .
Acted in 176
1970s
- 1972
1960s
- 1968
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Movie
Three Rogues
Movie
Woman Gambler Is Coming
Movie
Devil in My Flesh
Movie
- 1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Kae's Wet Nurse
- 1966
- 1965
True Osaka Grit
Movie
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Osugi
Three Yakuza
Movie
My Wife
Movie
Snow Country
Blind masseuse
Nami kage
Movie
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")
- 1964
Ai, sono kiseki
Movie
My Lover
Movie
Money Is Most Important
Movie
An Impudent Man 2
Movie
I'm a Bodyguard
Movie
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Osugi
- 1963
We Are Salarymen
Oshige
New Marital Relations
Movie
Dobuike
Tadae Horikawa
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
Osugi
Maiko-han
Movie
The Third Will
Yoshiko
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Ume Shimizu
Uogashi no senpū musume
Movie
Madame Aki
Setsuko
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Madam
- 1962
The Paper Crane
Movie
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Osugi
The Body
Movie
The Fencing Master
Old woman
Yakuza Official
Movie
Ame no Kudan-zaka
Movie
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Movie
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Movie
Till Tomorrow Is
Movie
In Search of Mother
Obah
Good Rascals
Omon
This Year's Love
Movie
- 1961
Bad Reputation Returns
Ito Aso
京化粧
Movie
Girls of the Night
Kumeju
Fine Man
Movie
Miyamoto Musashi
Osugi
Moonlight in the Rain
Movie
Osaka Tough
Movie
続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
Movie
The Harbor Lights
Movie
The Preacher of Love
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Otoshi
Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
Movie
- 1960
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Chie
Kimagure karasu
Movie
Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Movie
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
Shinran
Movie
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
Chiyo
Bantōhan to detchidon
Movie
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Movie
続べらんめぇ芸者
Movie
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
Natsukawa Chiyo
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
Movie
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)
The Five Jolly Thieves
Movie
1950s
- 1959
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Chiyoyo Nishino (Sazae's aunt)
Evil Man of Edo
Movie
New Third-Class Executive
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
Gentle Breeze
Movie
Room for Let
O-Mino
Hawk of the North
Movie
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Kameno Inao
Unmarried
Movie
Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
Movie
Flower Shop Curtain
Movie
Temptation on Glamour Island
Shige Sasaki
Sazae-san's Marriage
Chie Nishino
- 1958
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
Movie
The Ladder of Success
Movie
Scops-Owl Sermon
Movie
Kunisada Chuji
Movie
Sazae's Engagement Trip
Chie Nishino
Tainted Flowers
Movie
The Shop Curtain
Movie
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Sueno
Her Son Came Back
Movie
Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day
Movie
Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: There are Five Men and Seven Women in the Family
Movie
The Capital of Love
Umeko Yoshii
Chance Meeting
Yone
- 1957
The Blue Mountains Part 2
Proprietress of Takara-ya
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
Matsumura Sei
The Blue Mountains
Mistress of Tamayaya
The Bride Is Waiting
Movie
Geisha in the Old City
Ohatsu
The Men of Toho-ku
Oei
Hadaka no Machi
Movie
On Wings of Love
Umeko Yoshioka
The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
Movie
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Matsumura Sei
Snow Country
Otatsu
Price of Beauty
Natsu Morishita
An Osaka Story
Movie
Ichiya no hyakuman chōja
Movie
- 1956
Haha shirayuki
Movie
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
Movie
Sound in the Mist
Chieko Naniwa
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Orin
Women in Prison
Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner
The More-You-Fall-In-Love Story
Movie
The Swamp
Otoki
Ninjutsu senshuken jiai
Movie
Sisters of Gion
Movie
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Yūtō rakudaisei
Movie
Zangiku monogatari
Omoto
The Sentimental Idiot
Movie
Ninjutsu musha shūgyō
Movie
The Maiden Courtesan
Movie
All Sold Out
Movie
- 1955
Kaette kita yūrei
Movie
Love at Forty
Movie
So Young, So Bright
Oshin
Detour to Love
Yasu
So Deep in My Heart
Movie
Marital Relations
Movie
Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
Movie
The Rookie Managers
Movie
Maiko sanjūshi
Movie
First Love Waltz
Movie
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
お金
- 1954
浮かれ狐千本櫻
Otsuji
Tekka bugyō
Movie
Yome to yobarete mada mitsuki
Movie
Maiko monogatari
Movie
Hana to hatō
Movie
お役者変化
母そよ
Hana no sando gasa
Movie
- 1953
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
Movie
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Movie
お役者小僧
お幸
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
Movie
Asama no karasu
Movie
- 1952
紺屋高尾
Movie
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Midori, the mother
Violence
Movie
Taki no Shiraito
Midori
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie
