Chieko Nakakita

Chieko Nakakita

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.

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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to ...

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Incident at Blood Pass
Incident at Blood Pass

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

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Omatsuri hanjiro
Omatsuri hanjiro

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...

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Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...

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A Woman's Life
A Woman's Life

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....

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Mother
Mother

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family....

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Untamed Woman
Untamed Woman

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...

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Long Way to Okinawa
Long Way to Okinawa

1962 Japanese movie...

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One Wonderful Sunday
One Wonderful Sunday

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...

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Sound of the Mountain
Sound of the Mountain

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight...

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Flowing
Flowing

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...

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Shimizu Port Salaryman
Shimizu Port Salaryman

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Irresponsible Rascal of Japan
Irresponsible Rascal of Japan

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan"....

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Home-Brewed Tatsu
Home-Brewed Tatsu

1962 Japanese movie...

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White Beast
White Beast

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac...

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Floating Clouds
Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...

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Women Doing Time
Women Doing Time

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series...

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The Last War
The Last War

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...

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Desperado Outpost
Desperado Outpost

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second ...

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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy....

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Yearning
Yearning

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...

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Sudden Rain
Sudden Rain

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....

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A Woman's Identity
A Woman's Identity

1962 Japanese movie...

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A Whistle in My Heart
A Whistle in My Heart

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reac...

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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1962 Japanese movie...

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Lord for a Night
Lord for a Night

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...

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Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

1962 Japanese movie...

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A Dangerous Hero
A Dangerous Hero

A film by Hideo Suzuki....

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Shin kitsune to tanuki
Shin kitsune to tanuki

1962 Japanese movie...

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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...

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The Storm
The Storm

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone....

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The Most Beautiful
The Most Beautiful

Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, endurin...

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No Regrets for Our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...

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The Quiet Duel
The Quiet Duel

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation....

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Will-o'-the-Wisp
Will-o'-the-Wisp

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Repast
Repast

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...

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Lightning
Lightning

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunction...

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Wife
Wife

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...

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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...

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A Wife's Heart
A Wife's Heart

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...

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The Thin Line
The Thin Line

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which ...

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Little Peach
Little Peach

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...

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A Wanderer's Notebook
A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...

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Love Letter
Love Letter

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 Vampire Moth
The Vampire Moth

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask....

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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan....

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Once More
Once More

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto...

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A Smell of Money
A Smell of Money

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich....

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The Spell of the Hidden Gold
The Spell of the Hidden Gold

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin....

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Geisha in the Old City
Geisha in the Old City

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov...

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...

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Irresponsible Age of Japan
Irresponsible Age of Japan

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder....

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An Innocent Witch
An Innocent Witch

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat...

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The Other Woman
The Other Woman

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to...

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The Lost Alibi
The Lost Alibi

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when...

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The Weed of Crime
The Weed of Crime

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade....

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Ditch
Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...

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Hello, Baby
Hello, Baby

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arr...

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Farewell Rabaul
Farewell Rabaul

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...

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Blood and Diamonds
Blood and Diamonds

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begi...

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Those Who Make Tomorrow
Those Who Make Tomorrow

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr...

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Samurai Saga
Samurai Saga

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...

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Daredevil in the Castle
Daredevil in the Castle

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...

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The Lovable Tramp
The Lovable Tramp

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with ...

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Farewell, My Beloved
Farewell, My Beloved

During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Ma...

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The Three Treasures
The Three Treasures

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...

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Get 'em All
Get 'em All

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks ...

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Moment of Terror
Moment of Terror

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...

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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c...

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Girls of the Night
Girls of the Night

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...

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Three Women of the North
Three Women of the North

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr...

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Procurer of Hell
Procurer of Hell

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornog...

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Husband and Wife
Husband and Wife

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...

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Adolescence Part II
Adolescence Part II

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education....

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A Bridge for Two Alone
A Bridge for Two Alone

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Lovetide
Lovetide

An Ishiro Honda film....

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Mother and Son
Mother and Son

An Ishiro Honda film....

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The Story of Iron Arm Inao
The Story of Iron Arm Inao

An Ishiro Honda film....

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Forbidden Affair
Forbidden Affair

Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives wa...

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Chûshingura
Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...

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Blood on the Sea
Blood on the Sea

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot....

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Nichijô no tatakai
Nichijô no tatakai

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Happiness of Us Alone
Happiness of Us Alone

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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Eleven High School Girls
Eleven High School Girls

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with yo...

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As Long as I Live
As Long as I Live

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Yasugorō shusse
Yasugorō shusse

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Red-Light Bases
Red-Light Bases

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....

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Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails

Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keep...

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Pretty Devil Yoko
Pretty Devil Yoko

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Toky...

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Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san's Song of Love

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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Early Spring
Early Spring

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...

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Life of a Country Doctor
Life of a Country Doctor

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov...

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Garakuta
Garakuta

1964 Japanese movie...

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Uta e! Taiyō
Uta e! Taiyō

1945 Japanese movie...

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Chained Bitch
Chained Bitch

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series...

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A Female Doctor's Examination Room
A Female Doctor's Examination Room

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more sur...

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Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
Awamori-kun nishi-e iku

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi...

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Who Is the Informer?
Who Is the Informer?

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out ...

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The Preacher of Love
The Preacher of Love

1961 Japanese movie...

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How the Bell of Liberty Rings
How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def...

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12 Chapters About Women
12 Chapters About Women

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta w...

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The Terrible Game
The Terrible Game

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with t...

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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...

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Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō

1961 Japanese movie...

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The Shadow Daughter
The Shadow Daughter

Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak...

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Fox and Raccoon
Fox and Raccoon

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...

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The Lucky Chair
The Lucky Chair

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Eacape of Fear
Eacape of Fear

The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey ma...

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Kojinbutu no fufu
Kojinbutu no fufu

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Engagement Ring
Engagement Ring

A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds hi...

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The Decoy
The Decoy

Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (...

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