Chieko Naniwa
Birthday: 1907-11-19
Place of Birth: Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan
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 .
Movies
Shogun and His Mistress 2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes ot...
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Equinox Flower
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...
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The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
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Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Sazae-san's Marriage
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae...
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company...
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Sazae's Engagement Trip
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope....
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The Woman in the Rumor
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru...
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Hawk of the North
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
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The River Yokobori
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the...
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Osaka Tough
The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who...
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Three Yakuza
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and s...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man...
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Flower Shop Curtain
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in ...
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The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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The Garden of Women
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned do...
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18 Roughs
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company...
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お役者小僧
The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especi...
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お役者変化
During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed ...
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Beautiful Gonpati
A foot soldier from Tottori domain named Shirai Gonpachi showcased exceptional swordsmanship that ev...
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快盗三人吉三
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha ...
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八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relatio...
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Three Rogues
Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when purs...
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Evening Calm
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on he...
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Kunisada Chuji
Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mer...
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Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Shimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn "Daikokuya...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end ...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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The Paper Crane
A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con ...
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....
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Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....
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Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series....
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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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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. T...
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Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise...
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The Fencing Master
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming...
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Snow Country
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha ...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take ...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved ...
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An Osaka Story
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji...
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Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
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Woman Gambler Is Coming
Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring wher...
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Fine Man
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes ...
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Room for Let
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion...
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In Search of Mother
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza...
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Gentle Breeze
A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis....
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An Impudent Man
Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Ki...
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Good Rascals
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives....
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Chance Meeting
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidental...
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Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....
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Evil Man of Edo
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on th...
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Her Son Came Back
Kind hearted yakuza Hanjiro of Asama risks his life in saving his henchman Genjiro and his family....
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City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose f...
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This Year's Love
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...
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Ghost of Saga Mansion
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...
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Women in Prison
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is ...
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The Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after...
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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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A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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On Wings of Love
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's hi...
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Sound in the Mist
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma ...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all ...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin...
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Zangiku monogatari
Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese ...
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I'm a Bodyguard
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Securi...
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Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama....
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So Young, So Bright
Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hi...
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Moonlight in the Rain
A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi....
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The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi ...
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New Third-Class Executive
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide wh...
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New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressu...
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New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s inf...
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New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to...
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President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follow...
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The Gion Tempest
The story follows Keiko, a dancer in the "Maiko Odori" theater in Kyoto, who tries to climb the soci...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster t...
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We Are Salarymen
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his fam...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but ...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry bu...
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The Blue Mountains
About schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar....
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The Blue Mountains Part 2
At Kaikō Girls’ School, a fake love letter sparks a heated PTA debate. Teacher Shimazaki wins the vo...
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