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Chieko Naniwa (浪花 千栄子) (November 19, 1907 – December 22, 1973) was a Japanese actress who was active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She is best known for playing geisha in several films, such as Kenji Mizoguchi 's A Geisha , and the Forest Spirit in Akira Kurosawa 's Throne of Blood .
Chieko Naniwa was born on 19 November 1908 in Osaka, Japan. She was an actress, known for Throne of Blood (1957), A Geisha (1953) and Miyamoto Musashi (1961). She was married to Tengai Shibuya. She died on 22 December 1973.
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New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition. Audio commentary featuring Japanese-literature scholar Jeffrey Angles. Interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka, and actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance.
- Tamaki/Nakagimi
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.
- Taketoki Washizu
One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution.
Chieko Naniwa (浪花千栄子Naniwa Chieko, Osaka, November 19, 1908 - December 22, 1973) [1] was a Japanese actress.
