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 .
151 movies · 1 shows
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
1972·10.0
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
1968·10.0
Three Rogues
1968·7.0
Woman Gambler Is Coming
1968·7.0
Devil in My Flesh
1968·10.0
Shogun and His Mistress 2
1967·4.5
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967·6.7
The River Yokobori
1966·0.0
A Circus Girl
1966·0.0
True Osaka Grit
1965·0.0
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965·7.3
Three Yakuza
1965·7.8
My Wife
1965·0.0
Snow Country
1965·6.7
Nami kage
1965·8.0
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
1965·8.0
Ai, sono kiseki
1964·0.0
Money Is Most Important
1964·0.0
An Impudent Man 2
1964·0.0
I'm a Bodyguard
1964·8.0
An Impudent Man
1964·0.0
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964·7.0
We Are Salarymen
1963·7.0
Dobuike
1963·0.0
18 Roughs
1963·6.7
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963·7.0
The Third Will
1963·7.7
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
1963·7.0
Uogashi no senpū musume
1963·0.0
Madame Aki
1963·7.0
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963·6.5
The Paper Crane
1962·0.0
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1962·7.5
The Body
1962·7.3
The Fencing Master
1962·5.9
Shin kitsune to tanuki
1962·7.0
Yakuza Official
1962·0.0
Ame no Kudan-zaka
1962·0.0
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962·0.0
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1962·0.0
Till Tomorrow Is
1962·8.0
In Search of Mother
1962·6.6
Good Rascals
1962·6.0
This Year's Love
1962·6.8
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
1962·0.0
Bad Reputation Returns
1961·4.8
京化粧
1961·0.0
The End of Summer
1961·7.5
Girls of the Night
1961·6.5
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
1961·0.0
Fine Man
1961·8.0
Miyamoto Musashi
1961·7.3
Moonlight in the Rain
1961·9.0
Osaka Tough
1961·0.0
続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
1961·0.0
The Harbor Lights
1961·6.3
The Preacher of Love
1961·0.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961·10.0
Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
1961·0.0
Sazae And Aunt Apron
1960·10.0
Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
1960·0.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960·0.0
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960·8.0
Shinran
1960·10.0
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
1960·0.0
Bantōhan to detchidon
1960·0.0
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
1960·9.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960·9.0
続べらんめぇ芸者
1960·0.0
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
1960·0.0
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
1960·0.0
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960·8.0
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
1959·0.0
Evil Man of Edo
1959·8.0
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959·5.3
New Third-Class Executive
1959·8.0
Gentle Breeze
1959·5.0
Room for Let
1959·7.0
Hawk of the North
1959·5.3
Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
1959·0.0
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1959·8.0
Unmarried
1959·0.0
Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
1959·0.0
Flower Shop Curtain
1959·10.0
Temptation on Glamour Island
1959·7.0
Sazae-san's Marriage
1959·0.0
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
1958·0.0
Equinox Flower
1958·7.4
Kunisada Chuji
1958·5.6
Sazae's Engagement Trip
1958·0.0
Tainted Flowers
1958·10.0
The Shop Curtain
1958·8.0
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
1958·0.0
Her Son Came Back
1958·0.0
The Capital of Love
1958·0.0
Chance Meeting
1958·10.0
The Blue Mountains Part 2
1957·0.0
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
1957·8.0
The Blue Mountains
1957·0.0
Geisha in the Old City
1957·10.0
The Men of Toho-ku
1957·9.0
Hadaka no Machi
1957·0.0
On Wings of Love
1957·10.0
The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
1957·7.0
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
1957·9.0
Snow Country
1957·6.7
Evening Calm
1957·9.0
Price of Beauty
1957·10.0
An Osaka Story
1957·6.0
Throne of Blood
1957·7.9
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
1956·0.0
Sound in the Mist
1956·7.5
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956·6.7
Women in Prison
1956·4.0
The Swamp
1956·7.0
Sisters of Gion
1956·0.0
Zangiku monogatari
1956·7.0
The Sentimental Idiot
1956·0.0
The Maiden Courtesan
1956·0.0
All Sold Out
1956·0.0
So Young, So Bright
1955·7.8
Detour to Love
1955·0.0
So Deep in My Heart
1955·0.0
Marital Relations
1955·5.6
Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
1955·0.0
The Rookie Managers
1955·0.0
Maiko sanjūshi
1955·0.0
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
1955·0.0
浮かれ狐千本櫻
1954·0.0
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954·7.8
Twenty-Four Eyes
1954·7.7
The Woman in the Rumor
1954·7.3
快盗三人吉三
1954·0.0
Sansho the Bailiff
1954·8.1
The Garden of Women
1954·6.6
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954·9.0
Beautiful Gonpati
1954·0.0
Maiko monogatari
1954·0.0
Hana to hatō
1954·0.0
お役者変化
1954·0.0
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
1953·0.0
Ghost of Saga Mansion
1953·7.7
Zoku Tange Sazen
1953·10.0
A Geisha
1953·7.6
Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
1953·0.0
お役者小僧
1953·0.0
紺屋高尾
1952·0.0
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
1952·0.0
Violence
1952·8.0
Taki no Shiraito
1952·0.0
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1952·7.0