List of the best Chieko Naniwa movies: The End of Summer(1962), The Woman in the Rumor(1954), Naniwa no Koi no Monogatari(1959), Chikamatsu Monogatari(1954), Equinox Flower(1958), Throne of Blood(1957) ... ...
Drama, Romance
Japan
1962
103 Minutes
Sasaki Tsune
Ganjirô Nakamura Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa Keiju Kobayashi Michiyo Aratama Chieko Naniwa Daisuke Kato
father daughter mistress son-in-law grandson emotional melodramatic kyoto, japan household brewery aging father/daughter relationship family deception sister relationship romance love discovery 1960s
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Drama, Romance
Japan
1954
83 Minutes
Osaki
Kinuyo Tanaka Tomoemon Otani Yoshiko Kuga Eitarô Shindô Bontaro Miake Chieko Naniwa Haruo Tanaka Hisao Toake Michiko Ai Sachiko Mine Yoko Wakasugi
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance
Japan
1959
105 Minutes
Kinnosuke Nakamura Ineko Arima Kinuyo Tanaka Hiromi Hanazono Eitarô Shindô Chieko Naniwa Harue Akagi Sumiko Hidaka Minoru Chiaki Eijiro Tono Chiezo Kataoka
A wealthy man falls in love with a prostitute.
Drama, History
1954
116 Minutes
Okô
Kazuo Hasegawa Kyoko Kagawa Yoko Minamida Eitaro Shindo Sakae Ozawa Chieko Naniwa Ichiro Sugai Tatsuya Ishiguro Hisao Toake Ikkei Tamaki Kimiko Tachebana
businessman wife employee brother young girl underling melodramatic dark passionate brooding estate japan shop false accusations doomed romance on the run scandal theft siblings forbidden love
An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.
Comedy, Drama
Japan
1958
120 Minutes
Hatsu Sasaki
Shin Saburi Chishu Ryu Teiji Takahashi Kinuyo Tanaka Fumio Watanabe Ineko Arima Chieko Naniwa Miyuki Kuwano Nobuo Nakamura
father mother daughter sister friend fiancé endearing touching witty calm japan wedding household factory arranged marriage family traditions independence social customs generation gap women's rights
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
Drama
1957
108 Minutes
Witch, Old Ghost Woman
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Akira Kubo Takamaru Sasaki Chieko Naniwa
samurai lord wife son rival gripping chilling japan castle forest ambition assassination revenge fall transformation 15th century
A Japanese version of "Macbeth" features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu Yamada) and a flurry-of-arrows finale.