Chieko Naniwa
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 19 November 1907 · Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan
- Died
- 22 December 1973
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
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Sanji museigen
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Sanji museigen
1956
Kaette kita yūrei
1955
Woman Gambler Is Coming
1968
Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day
1958
The Bride Is Waiting
1957
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Kakushigo sōdō
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Kakushigo sōdō
1956
Acting 181
- 1972Lullaby for a Tough Guy
- 1968The Woman Gambler's Supplication
- 1968Three Rogues
- 1968Woman Gambler Is Coming
- 1968Devil in My Flesh
- 1967Shogun and His Mistress 2
- 1967The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
- 1966The River Yokobori as Kin
- 1966A Circus Girl
- 1965True Osaka Grit
- 1965Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro as Osugi
- 1965Three Yakuza
- 1965My Wife
- 1965Snow Country as Blind masseuse
- 1965Nami kage
- 1965President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Sen (Proprietress, restaurant "Manman")
- 1964Ai, sono kiseki
- 1964My Lover
- 1964Money Is Most Important
- 1964An Impudent Man 2
- 1964I'm a Bodyguard
- 1964An Impudent Man
- 1964Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple as Osugi
- 1963We Are Salarymen as Oshige
- 1963New Marital Relations
- 1963Dobuike as Tadae Horikawa
- 196318 Roughs as Seichii's Mother
- 1963Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style as Osugi
- 1963Maiko-han
- 1963The Third Will as Yoshiko
- 1963Uogashi no senpū musume
- 1963Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５ as Ume Shimizu
- 1963Madame Aki as Setsuko
- 1963Twin Sisters of Kyoto as Madam
- 1962The Paper Crane
- 1962Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights as Osugi
- 1962The Body
- 1962The Fencing Master as Old woman
- 1962Shin kitsune to tanuki
- 1962Yakuza Official
- 1962Ame no Kudan-zaka
- 1962Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
- 1962Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
- 1962Till Tomorrow Is
- 1962Good Rascals as Omon
- 1962This Year's Love
- 1962In Search of Mother as Obah
- 1962次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
- 1961Bad Reputation Returns as Ito Aso
- 1961京化粧
- 1961The End of Summer as Sasaki Tsune
- 1961Girls of the Night as Kumeju
- 1961Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
- 1961Fine Man
- 1961Miyamoto Musashi as Osugi
- 1961Moonlight in the Rain
- 1961Osaka Tough
- 1961続々々番頭はんと丁稚どん チャンポン旅行
- 1961The Harbor Lights
- 1961The Preacher of Love
- 1961The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 as Otoshi
- 1961べらんめぇ藝者罷り通る
- 1961Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
- 1960Sazae And Aunt Apron as Chie
- 1960Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
- 1960The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Husband Education as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- 1960Shinran
- 1960Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success as Chiyo
- 1960Bantōhan to detchidon
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- 1960The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
- 1960続べらんめぇ芸者
- 1960Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes as Natsukawa Chiyo
- 1960The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
- 1960New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking as Tsuruko Miyaguchi (Widow of founder)
- 1960The Five Jolly Thieves
- 1959Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife as Chiyoyo Nishino (Sazae's aunt)
- 1959Evil Man of Edo
- 1959Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka as Oen
- 1959New Third-Class Executive as Tsuruko Miyaguchi
- 1959Gentle Breeze
- 1959Room for Let as O-Mino
- 1959Hawk of the North
- 1959Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki as Oharu
- 1959The Story of Iron Arm Inao as Kameno Inao
- 1959Unmarried
- 1959Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
- 1959Flower Shop Curtain
- 1959Temptation on Glamour Island as Shige Sasaki
- 1959Sazae-san's Marriage as Chie Nishino
- 1958Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
- 1958Scops-Owl Sermon
- 1958Equinox Flower as Hatsu Sasaki
- 1958Kunisada Chuji
- 1958Sazae's Engagement Trip as Chie Nishino
- 1958Tainted Flowers
- 1958The Shop Curtain
- 1958The Gion Tempest as Orin
- 1958Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki as Sueno
- 1958Her Son Came Back
- 1958Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day
- 1958Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: There are Five Men and Seven Women in the Family
- 1958The Capital of Love as Umeko Yoshii
- 1958Chance Meeting as Yone
- 1957The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Proprietress of Takara-ya
- 1957Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2 as Matsumura Sei
- 1957The Blue Mountains as Mistress of Tamayaya
- 1957The Bride Is Waiting
- 1957Geisha in the Old City as Ohatsu
- 1957The Men of Toho-ku as Oei
- 1957Hadaka no Machi
- 1957On Wings of Love as Umeko Yoshioka
- 1957The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
- 1957Diary of a Successful Salaryman as Matsumura Sei
- 1957Snow Country as Otatsu
- 1957Evening Calm
- 1957Price of Beauty as Natsu Morishita
- 1957An Osaka Story
- 1957Throne of Blood as Old Ghost Woman
- 1957Ichiya no hyakuman chōja
- 1956Haha shirayuki
- 1956The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
- 1956Sound in the Mist as Chieko Naniwa
- 1956Shozo, a Cat and Two Women as Orin
- 1956Women in Prison as Mitsuko Kaneoka, prisoner
- 1956The More-You-Fall-In-Love Story
- 1956The Swamp as Otoki
- 1956Ninjutsu senshuken jiai
- 1956Sisters of Gion
- 1956Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Mayoigo hiroi ko
- 1956Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Yūtō rakudaisei
- 1956Zangiku monogatari as Omoto
- 1956The Sentimental Idiot
- 1956Ninjutsu musha shūgyō
- 1956Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Sanji museigen
- 1956Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Kakushigo sōdō
- 1956The Maiden Courtesan
- 1956All Sold Out
- 1955Kaette kita yūrei
- 1955Love at Forty
- 1955So Young, So Bright as Oshin
- 1955So Deep in My Heart
- 1955Detour to Love as Yasu
- 1955Marital Relations
- 1955Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
- 1955The Rookie Managers
- 1955Maiko sanjūshi
- 1955First Love Waltz
- 1955八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線 as お金
- 1954浮かれ狐千本櫻 as Otsuji
- 1954Chikamatsu Monogatari as Okô
- 1954Twenty-Four Eyes as Meshiya no Kamisan
- 1954Tekka bugyō
- 1954Yome to yobarete mada mitsuki
- 1954The Woman in the Rumor as Osaki
- 1954Hana no nagadosu
- 1954快盗三人吉三 as 小紫の局
- 1954Yoidore nitōryū
- 1954Sansho the Bailiff as Ubatake
- 1954The Garden of Women
- 1954Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
- 1954Maiko monogatari
- 1954Beautiful Gonpati as およし
- 1954Hana to hatō
- 1954お役者変化 as 母そよ
- 1954Hana no sando gasa
- 1953Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
- 1953Ghost of Saga Mansion
- 1953Zoku Tange Sazen
- 1953A Geisha as Okimi
- 1953Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage as Omoto
- 1953Seki no yatappe
- 1953お役者小僧 as お幸
- 1953Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
- 1953Asama no karasu
- 1952紺屋高尾
- 1952Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo as Midori, the mother
- 1952Violence
- 1952滝の白糸 as Midori
- 1952Tsukigata Hanpeita