# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chieko-naniwa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:30:17.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chieko-naniwa"
name: "Chieko Naniwa"
slug: "chieko-naniwa"
description: "Chieko Naniwa 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. Her birth name was Kikuno Nanko."
tagline: "Japanese actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gion_bayashi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1907-11-19"
deathDate: "1973-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.52
  momentum:             0.5232558139534884
  historical:           7.790470666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0620850/"
    handle:    "nm0620850"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bdcfcc53-ed4f-47e0-a315-e5fbc3b10307"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "كيكو نانيوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Naniwa"
    title: "Chieko Naniwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Naniwa"
    title: "Chieko Naniwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Naniwa"
    title: "Chieko Naniwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%AA%E8%8A%B1%E5%8D%83%E6%A0%84%E5%AD%90"
    title: "浪花千栄子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chieko_Naniwa"
    title: "Chieko Naniwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%AA%E8%8A%B1%E5%8D%83%E8%8D%A3%E5%AD%90"
    title: "浪花千荣子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11558450"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134344"
    title: "Chieko Naniwa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump