Chieko Naniwa
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 .
Filmography (145 Appearances)
The Gion Tempest
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
A Circus Girl
True Osaka Grit
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Three Yakuza
My Wife
Snow Country
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Nami kage
Taikouki
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
We Are Salarymen
18 Roughs
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
The Third Will
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Uogashi no senpū musume
Madame Aki
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
The Paper Crane
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The Body
The Fencing Master
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Yakuza Official
Ame no Kudan-zaka
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Till Tomorrow Is
Good Rascals
This Year's Love
In Search of Mother
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Bad Reputation Returns
京化粧
The End of Summer
Girls of the Night
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
Fine Man
Miyamoto Musashi
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
Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
Sazae And Aunt Apron
Zoku bantōhan to detchidon
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Shinran
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
Bantōhan to detchidon
New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
続べらんめぇ芸者
Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Evil Man of Edo
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
New Third-Class Executive
Gentle Breeze
Room for Let
Hawk of the North
Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
Flower Shop Curtain
Temptation on Glamour Island
Sazae-san's Marriage
Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
Equinox Flower
Kunisada Chuji
Sazae's Engagement Trip
Tainted Flowers
The Shop Curtain
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Her Son Came Back
The Capital of Love
Chance Meeting
The Blue Mountains Part 2
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
The Blue Mountains
Geisha in the Old City
The Men of Toho-ku
Hadaka no Machi
On Wings of Love
The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Snow Country
Evening Calm
Price of Beauty
An Osaka Story
Throne of Blood
Sound in the Mist
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Women in Prison
The Swamp
Sisters of Gion
Zangiku monogatari
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
浮かれ狐千本櫻
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Twenty-Four Eyes
The Woman in the Rumor
快盗三人吉三
Sansho the Bailiff
The Garden of Women
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Maiko monogatari
Beautiful Gonpati
お役者変化
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Zoku Tange Sazen
A Geisha
Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
お役者小僧
紺屋高尾
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Violence
滝の白糸
Tsukigata Hanpeita