Person

Chieko Matsui

Acting · 1899–1929 · Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan

Chieko Matsui (December 4, 1899 – April 2, 1929) was a Japanese actress of the silent era. The eldest daughter of a doctor, she left home in 1922 after her mother passed away and her father remarried. She became an actor at Shochiku Studios, performing in fifty-five movies between 1925 and 1929. In 1927, she became one of the first female screenwriters in Japan, writing screenplays for the films "Lake of Melancholy" and "Spring Rain." She starred in both as well. Matsui underwent surgery for kidney disease in 1928. She passed away in 1929, while recuperating in her home.

• Buried Youth

  1926

• The Basement

  1927

• Troubled Days

  Ryoji's lover, Outa

• The Killing of a Hundred Men at Isshinji Temple

  Kikue

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  Young Master

  Sumiko Sugimoto (clerk)

• Townspeople

  1926

• Iron Virgin

  Kyōko

• The Age of Emotion

  1928

• No Need for Your Opinion

  Geisha

• 

  Umi mo yusha

  1927

• 1928Iron VirginKyōko
• 1928The Age of Emotion
• 1927Umi mo yusha
• 1927The Basement
• 1926Buried Youth
• 1926Junange
• 1926Young MasterSumiko Sugimoto (clerk)
• 1926Townspeople
• 1926Troubled DaysRyoji's lover, Outa
• 1925No Need for Your OpinionGeisha
• 1925The Killing of a Hundred Men at Isshinji TempleKikue