Chieko Naniwa
Acting
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 .
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Three Rogues
Woman Gambler Is Coming
Devil in My Flesh
Shogun and His Mistress 2
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The River Yokobori
Kin
A Circus Girl
True Osaka Grit
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Osugi
Three Yakuza
My Wife
Snow Country
Blind masseuse
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")
Nami kage
Ai, sono kiseki
Money Is Most Important
続・図々しい奴
I'm a Bodyguard
An Impudent Man
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
Osugi
We Are Salarymen
Oshige
18 Roughs
Seichii's Mother
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Osugi
The Third Will
Yoshiko
Uogashi no senpū musume
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Ume Shimizu
Madame Aki
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Madam
The Paper Crane
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Osugi
The Body
The Fencing Master
Old woman
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Yakuza Official
Ame no Kudan-zaka
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
As Long as There's Tomorrow
This Year's Love
Good Rascals
Omon
In Search of Mother
Obah
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Bad Reputation Returns
Ito Aso
京化粧
The End of Summer
Sasaki Tsune
Girls of the Night
Kumeju
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
Fine Man
Miyamoto Musashi
Osugi
Moonlight in the Rain
Osaka Tough
続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
The Harbor Lights
The Preacher of Love
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Otoshi
Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
Shinran
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
Chiyo
Bantōhan to detchidon
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
続べらんめぇ芸者
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
Natsukawa Chiyo
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Evil Man of Edo
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Oen
New Third-Class Executive
Tsuruko Miyaguchi
Gentle Breeze
Room for Let
O-Mino
Hawk of the North
Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
Oharu
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Kameno Inao
Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
Flower Shop Curtain
Temptation on Glamour Island
Shige Sasaki
Sazae-san's Marriage
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
Equinox Flower
Hatsu Sasaki
Kunisada Chuji
Sazae's Engagement Trip
Tainted Flowers
The Shop Curtain
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Sueno
Her Son Came Back
The Capital of Love
Umeko Yoshii
Chance Meeting
Yone
The Blue Mountains Part 2
Proprietress of Takara-ya
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
Matsumura Sei
The Blue Mountains
Mistress of Tamayaya
Geisha in the Old City
Ohatsu
The Men of Toho-ku
Oei
Hadaka no Machi
The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
On Wings of Love
Umeko Yoshioka
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Matsumura Sei
Snow Country
Otatsu
Evening Calm
Price of Beauty
Natsu Morishita
An Osaka Story
Throne of Blood
Old Ghost Woman
Sound in the Mist
Chieko Naniwa
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Orin
Women in Prison
Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner
The Swamp
Otoki
Sisters of Gion
Zangiku monogatari
Omoto
The Sentimental Idiot
The Maiden Courtesan
So Young, So Bright
Marital Relations
Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
The Rookie Managers
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
お金
浮かれ狐千本櫻
Otsuji
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Okô
Twenty-Four Eyes
Meshiya no Kamisan
The Woman in the Rumor
Osaki
快盗三人吉三
小紫の局
Sansho the Bailiff
Ubatake
The Garden of Women
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Maiko monogatari
Beautiful Gonpati
およし
お役者変化
母そよ
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Zoku Tange Sazen
A Geisha
Okimi
Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
Omoto
お役者小僧
お幸
紺屋高尾
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Midori, the mother
Violence
滝の白糸
Tsukigata Hanpeita