Film

The Chieko Story

1957 · 1h 38m · Drama

Adapted from a poem, which was composed by poet and sculptor Kotaro Takamura, Chieko-Sho is the story of the artist's wife Chieko. The poet meets a woman, who also as an artist illustrates, one day. They marry and have a good life spending many years together. One day, however, she loses her mind and has to be confined to a hospital. The poetry was some of star Hara Setsuko's favourite even before her involvement in the film.

So Yamamura

Kotaro Takamura

Setsuko Hara

Chieko Takamura

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Mitsuo

Bokuzen Hidari

Gohei

Kyoko Aoyama

Akiko

Natsuko Kahara

Mieko

Ken Mitsuda

Keiichi Yagi

Eiko Miyoshi

Kei

Keiko Môri

Kyoko

Haruo Nakajima

Chieko Nakakita

Sadako Kaga

Matsue Ono

Yoshino

Akira Sera

Sanji

Masafumi Takechi

Ichiro

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Koyama

Michiko Tsuyama

Tama

• Hisatora KumagaiDirector
• Toshio YasumiScreenplay
• Jōji OharaDirector of Photography

Release date

June 29, 1957

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama