Chieko Matsubara
Acting
Biography
Chieko Matsubara (born 6 January 1945) is a Japanese actress. She is best known for her roles in Tokyo Drifter (1966) and the Outlaw series. Spotted at a beauty contest sponsored by the Nikkatsu studio, Matsubara made her debut in 1961 at age 16 in Yoru no chōsensha. Matsubara won popularity and became one of the representative actresses of the Nikkatsu. She appeared in over 100 films at Nikkatsu.
Born: January 6, 1945
Place of Birth: Ikeda, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Ryōmaden
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
At River's Edge
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.
Suzuran
In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting room of Asumoe Station, a small country station, a passenger finds an abandoned baby and rushes to tell the station master, Tokiwa Jiro. The news quickly spreads and soon friends of Tokiwa's along with other townsfolk are saying that this baby must be a gift, it is Tokiwa's recently departed beloved wife reborn as a baby.
The Dragon of Macao
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."
Yasuragi no Toki: Michi
Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Dolls
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Ooka Echizen
The reign of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune in the Edo period, was notable for the “Ooka Sabaki” which supported the Kyoho Reforms that Yoshimune advanced. Yoshimune goes beyond status and the position he has been thrust in, to join with Edo magistrate Ooka Tadasuke and the Western medicine doctor Sakakibara Iori in order to promote the creation of a world for the common people of Edo. These three men deepen exchanges with the magistrate’s office and the townsfolk, uphold justice and struggle to keep order in Edo…
Seven Detectives
Yū Amagi is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division from the Lost and Found Centre. The Twelfth Section is called the "graveyard of detectives" and ridiculed as the "banishment room where hardened detectives who cannot be fired are sent." Its assembled detectives Kōsuke Samura, Takumi Yamashita, Keita Nagasawa, Tamaki Mizuta, and Masatoshi Katagiri are elite and yet oddballs. Amagi appears fixated with time which seems to have no relation with a case. Raising questions about the timelines of the perpetrator and victim derived from the estimated time of death, time of crime, time of alibi, and time limit, he searches for the meaning of "blank time" which arises from this. He obsesses over the weight of every minute and second of time because of some incident.
Tokyo Drifter
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
Filmography
as Wakako
as Keiko Namiki
as Hiromi Hayashi
as Yoko Higashi
as Hisako Kashimada
as Meiko Uemura
as Keiko (Old)
as Shuko Koyama
as Matsuda Mariko
as Kazue
as Kudo Tomihisa
as Tae
as Seika
as Ise
as Asako's mother
as Kinu Muraoka
as Segawa Yusen
as Masako Motoki
as Suzuko Asuka
as Misa Uehara
as Yanagisawa Masako
as Ryoko
as Fumiko Miyata
as Kiyoko
as Yamagata
as Chieko Namikawa
as Shizuko Hibiki
as Suzuki Yoshiko
as Kada Junko
as Keiko Natsukawa
as Motoko Takahata
as Sugisaki Shimitsu
as Tanihara Fumie
as Yukiko Hashimoto
as Yukiko Hashimoto
as Yuki Isomura
as Keiko Hashizume
as Miyako Mori
as Yukiko Hashimoto
as Akiko Imamura
as Yukiko Hashimoto
as Matsubara
as Wakana Tsutsui
as Kawaji Ayako
as Chiyo Ogawa
as Chiharu
as Yoriko Sawanouchi
as Honran
as Shizuko Inagaki
as Chikako
as Shino, the maid
as Yasuko Gôda
as Rie
as Chieko Katsumata
as Tokiko
as Baba Satoko
as Miyako Wakahara
as Keiko Kawada
as Sugiko
as Shizuko Suda