Chieko Naniwa
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 19, 1907
- Died
- Dec 22, 1973 (aged 66)
- Place of birth
- Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan
- Credits
- 183
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 .
Known for
Throne of Blood
1957Movie
Old Ghost Woman
Sansho the Bailiff
1954Movie
Ubatake
Equinox Flower
1958Movie
Hatsu Sasaki
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954Movie
Okô
The End of Summer
1961Movie
Sasaki Tsune
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954Movie
Meshiya no Kamisan
Filmography
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
1972Movie
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
1968Movie
Three Rogues
1968Movie
Woman Gambler Is Coming
1968Movie
Devil in My Flesh
1968Movie
Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967Movie
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967Movie
Kae's Wet Nurse
The River Yokobori
1966Movie
Kin
A Circus Girl
1966Movie
True Osaka Grit
1965Movie
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965Movie
Osugi
Three Yakuza
1965Movie
My Wife
1965Movie
Snow Country
1965Movie
Blind masseuse
Nami kage
1965Movie
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
1965Movie
Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")
Taikouki
1965TV
Naka
Ai, sono kiseki
1964Movie
My Lover
1964Movie
Money Is Most Important
1964Movie
An Impudent Man 2
1964Movie
I'm a Bodyguard
1964Movie
An Impudent Man
1964Movie
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964Movie
Osugi
We Are Salarymen
1963Movie
Oshige
New Marital Relations
1963Movie
Dobuike
1963Movie
Tadae Horikawa
18 Roughs
1963Movie
Seichii's Mother
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963Movie
Osugi
Maiko-han
1963Movie
The Third Will
1963Movie
Yoshiko
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
1963Movie
Ume Shimizu
Uogashi no senpū musume
1963Movie
Madame Aki
1963Movie
Setsuko
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963Movie
Madam
The Paper Crane
1962Movie
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962Movie
Osugi
The Body
1962Movie
The Fencing Master
1962Movie
Old woman
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962Movie
Yakuza Official
1962Movie
Ame no Kudan-zaka
1962Movie
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962Movie
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962Movie
Till Tomorrow Is
1962Movie
In Search of Mother
1962Movie
Obah
Good Rascals
1962Movie
Omon
This Year's Love
1962Movie
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
1962Movie
Bad Reputation Returns
1961Movie
Ito Aso
京化粧
1961Movie
The End of Summer
1961Movie
Sasaki Tsune
Girls of the Night
1961Movie
Kumeju
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
1961Movie
Fine Man
1961Movie
Miyamoto Musashi
1961Movie
Osugi
Moonlight in the Rain
1961Movie
Osaka Tough
1961Movie
続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
1961Movie
The Harbor Lights
1961Movie
The Preacher of Love
1961Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961Movie
Otoshi
Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
1961Movie
Sazae And Aunt Apron
1960Movie
Chie
Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
1960Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960Movie
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960Movie
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
Shinran
1960Movie
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
1960Movie
Chiyo
Bantōhan to detchidon
1960Movie
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
1960Movie
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960Movie
続べらんめぇ芸者
1960Movie
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
1960Movie
Natsukawa Chiyo
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
1960Movie
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960Movie
Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)
The Five Jolly Thieves
1960Movie
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
1959Movie
Chiyoyo Nishino (Sazae's aunt)
Evil Man of Edo
1959Movie
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959Movie
Oen
New Third-Class Executive
1959Movie
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
Gentle Breeze
1959Movie
Room for Let
1959Movie
O-Mino
Hawk of the North
1959Movie
Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
1959Movie
Oharu
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1959Movie
Kameno Inao
Unmarried
1959Movie
Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
1959Movie
Flower Shop Curtain
1959Movie
Temptation on Glamour Island
1959Movie
Shige Sasaki
Sazae-san's Marriage
1959Movie
Chie Nishino
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
1958Movie
The Ladder of Success
1958Movie
Scops-Owl Sermon
1958Movie
Equinox Flower
1958Movie
Hatsu Sasaki
Kunisada Chuji
1958Movie
Sazae's Engagement Trip
1958Movie
Chie Nishino
Tainted Flowers
1958Movie
The Shop Curtain
1958Movie
The Gion Tempest
1958Movie
Orin
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
1958Movie
Sueno
Her Son Came Back
1958Movie
Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day
1958Movie
Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: There are Five Men and Seven Women in the Family
1958Movie
The Capital of Love
1958Movie
Umeko Yoshii
Chance Meeting
1958Movie
Yone
The Blue Mountains Part 2
1957Movie
Proprietress of Takara-ya
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
1957Movie
Matsumura Sei
The Blue Mountains
1957Movie
Mistress of Tamayaya
The Bride Is Waiting
1957Movie
Geisha in the Old City
1957Movie
Ohatsu
The Men of Toho-ku
1957Movie
Oei
Hadaka no Machi
1957Movie
On Wings of Love
1957Movie
Umeko Yoshioka
The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
1957Movie
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
1957Movie
Matsumura Sei
Snow Country
1957Movie
Otatsu
Evening Calm
1957Movie
Price of Beauty
1957Movie
Natsu Morishita
An Osaka Story
1957Movie
Ōtotsu gankutsuō
1957Movie
Throne of Blood
1957Movie
Old Ghost Woman
Ichiya no hyakuman chōja
1957Movie
Haha shirayuki
1956Movie
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
1956Movie
Sound in the Mist
1956Movie
Chieko Naniwa
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956Movie
Orin
Women in Prison
1956Movie
Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner
The More-You-Fall-In-Love Story
1956Movie
The Swamp
1956Movie
Otoki
Ninjutsu senshuken jiai
1956Movie
Sisters of Gion
1956Movie
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Mayoigo hiroi ko
1956Movie
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Yūtō rakudaisei
1956Movie
Zangiku monogatari
1956Movie
Omoto
The Sentimental Idiot
1956Movie
Ninjutsu musha shūgyō
1956Movie
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Sanji museigen
1956Movie
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Kakushigo sōdō
1956Movie
The Maiden Courtesan
1956Movie
All Sold Out
1956Movie
Kaette kita yūrei
1955Movie
Love at Forty
1955Movie
So Young, So Bright
1955Movie
Oshin
Detour to Love
1955Movie
Yasu
So Deep in My Heart
1955Movie
Marital Relations
1955Movie
Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
1955Movie
The Rookie Managers
1955Movie
Maiko sanjūshi
1955Movie
First Love Waltz
1955Movie
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
1955Movie
お金
浮かれ狐千本櫻
1954Movie
Otsuji
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954Movie
Okô
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954Movie
Meshiya no Kamisan
Tekka bugyō
1954Movie
Yome to yobarete mada mitsuki
1954Movie
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954Movie
The Woman in the Rumor
1954Movie
Osaki
Maiko monogatari
1954Movie
Hana no nagadosu
1954Movie
快盗三人吉三
1954Movie
小紫の局
Yoidore nitōryū
1954Movie
Sansho the Bailiff
1954Movie
Ubatake
The Garden of Women
1954Movie
Beautiful Gonpati
1954Movie
およし
Hana to hatō
1954Movie
お役者変化
1954Movie
母そよ
Hana no sando gasa
1954Movie
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
1953Movie
Ghost of Saga Mansion
1953Movie
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953Movie
A Geisha
1953Movie
Okimi
Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
1953Movie
Omoto
Seki no yatappe
1953Movie
お役者小僧
1953Movie
お幸
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
1953Movie
Asama no karasu
1953Movie
紺屋高尾
1952Movie
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
1952Movie
Midori, the mother
Violence
1952Movie
Taki no Shiraito
1952Movie
Midori
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1952Movie