Portrait of Chieko (1967)
2h 5m
Running Time
June 22, 1967Release Date
Portrait of Chieko (1967)
2h 5m
Running Time
June 22, 1967Release Date
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Plot.
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity..
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Cast & Crew.
Shima Iwashita
Chieko Takamura
Tetsuro Tamba
Kotaro Takamura
Mikijiro Hira
Ishii
Jin Nakayama
Toyochika Takamura
Tetsuo Ishidate
Taro
Kaori Shima
Fumiko
Kinuko Obata
Osato Sawada
Masuyo Iwamoto
Nobuko
Ayako Hosho
Yasu Naganuma
Taketoshi Naitō
Director Sawada
Yoshi Katō
Sokichi Naganuma
Takamaru Sasaki
Koun Takamura
Eiji Okada
Tsubaki
Yōko Minamida
Kazuko Tsubaki
Nobuo Kaneko
Sawada / Yamazaki
Nobuko Tashiro
Shizu Takamura
Hiroshi Akutagawa
Poem Reader
Noboru Nakamura
Director / Screenplay
Haruo Satô
Original Story
Kotaro Takamura
Original Story
Masao Shirai
Executive Producer
Jo Hirose
Screenplay
Akihiko Shimada
Associate Producer
Hiroshi Takemura
Director of Photography
Details.
This Movie Is About.
poet
Wiki.
Portrait of Chieko (智恵子抄, Chieko-shō) is a 1967 Japanese drama film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It is based both on the 1941 poetry collection Chieko-shō by Japanese poet and sculptor Kōtarō Takamura, dedicated to his wife Chieko (1886–1938), and on the 1957 novel Shōsetsu Chieko-shō by Haruo Satō. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.