Birthday: 1926-05-21
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Chieko Nakakita (May 21 , 1926 - September 13, 2005) was a Japanese actress known for her roles in the films of Akira Kurosawa and Mikio Naruse. She was married to Toho producer Tomoyuki Tanaka. She later appeared in Mikio Naruse's films such as Meal, Floating Clouds, and Flowong. She was mainly active as a supporting actor.
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to ...
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In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...
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Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...
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In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...
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A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...
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An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight...
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Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
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Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac...
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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second ...
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War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....
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The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reac...
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In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...
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Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...
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Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, endurin...
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After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation....
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Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
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The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunction...
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Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
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Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which ...
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Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask....
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A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto...
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Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov...
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Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder....
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Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat...
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In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to...
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Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when...
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Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...
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A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arr...
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A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...
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A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begi...
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In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr...
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Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with ...
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During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Ma...
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The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks ...
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When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c...
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In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...
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The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr...
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Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornog...
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A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
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A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education....
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Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives wa...
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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with yo...
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Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
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Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keep...
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Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Toky...
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Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san...
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A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov...
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Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series...
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A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more sur...
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After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out ...
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Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def...
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Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta w...
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Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with t...
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At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...
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Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak...
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A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey ma...
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A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds hi...
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Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (...
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