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Sachiko Chiba(1911-1993)

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Actress Sachiko Chiba was born to an upper-class family as Tsuruko Chiba. She learnt to play koto and other musical instruments growing up and even travelled to the United States Of America to showcase her skills with the former instruments. Most directors treated her kindly, except Naruse Mikio, who at one point on the set of Tsuma Yo Bara No Yô Ni even made her cry. She ended up marrying the man who put her acting down less than two years later. Her mother asked Naruse to join her family as opposed to the other way around. Moreover, due to differences in classes and a clash between Chiba's mother and Naruse the differences continued and culminated in a divorce. Naruse, nonetheless, suggested they remarry if Chiba's mother dies. In the meanwhile, acquiescing to her mother's wishes she quit the acting profession and instead managed a high-end restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo called Kicchouso.
BornFebruary 16, 1911
DiedOctober 22, 1993(82)
BornFebruary 16, 1911
DiedOctober 22, 1993(82)
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Known for

Onna no kyôshitsu - Gakkô no maki: Nanatsu no omokage
  • Uiko Todoroki
  • 1939
The Actress and the Poet (1935)
The Actress and the Poet
6.2
  • Chieko
  • 1935
Woman's Classroom: Part Two
  • Uiko Todoroki
  • 1939
Hasegawa Roppa no Iemitsu to Hikoza
7.0
  • Kasuga-no-tsubone
  • 1941

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  • Watashi no uguisu (1944)
    Watashi no uguisu
    6.0
    • 1944
  • Haha no chizu
    • Makie
    • 1942
  • Midori no daichi
    • Kure
    • 1942
  • Shirasagi
    • 1941
  • Otoko no hanamichi (1941)
    Otoko no hanamichi
    • 1941
  • Hasegawa Roppa no Iemitsu to Hikoza
    7.0
    • Kasuga-no-tsubone
    • 1941
  • Okumura Ioko
    • 1940
  • Niizuma kagami: Kôhen
    • 1940
  • Sono zen'ya
    • Yoshie Todo
    • 1939
  • Woman's Classroom: Part Two
    • Uiko Todoroki
    • 1939
  • Onna no kyôshitsu - Gakkô no maki: Nanatsu no omokage
    • Uiko Todoroki
    • 1939
  • Rônin fubuki
    • 1939
  • A Husband's Chastity: Fall Once Again
    8.2
    • 1937
  • Otto no teisô - Haru kitareba
    7.5
    • 1937
  • Seishun butai
    • 1937

Soundtrack



  • Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)
    Morning's Tree-Lined Street
    6.9
    • performer: "Dreaming of Home and Mother", "Coming Through the Rye" ("Wasurecha iyayo (aka: Don't forget me)")
    • 1936

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  • Height
    • 5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
  • Born
    • February 16, 1911
    • Tokyo, Japan
  • Died
    • October 22, 1993
  • Spouse
    • Mikio Naruse1937 - 1940 (divorced, 1 child)

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    She married director Mikio Naruse after working with him on The Actress and the Poet (1935), Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) and The Girl in the Rumor (1935).

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