Portrait of Chieko (1967)
Original title: 智恵子抄
Portrait of Chieko is a 1967 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Noboru Nakamura, with a running time of 2h 5m. It stars Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba and Mikijiro Hira.
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...
Cast
- Shima Iwashita as Chieko Takamura
- Tetsuro Tamba as Kotaro Takamura
- Mikijiro Hira as Ishii
- Jin Nakayama as Toyochika Takamura
- Tetsuo Ishidate as Taro
- Kaori Shima as Fumiko
- Kinuko Obata as Osato Sawada
- Masuyo Iwamoto as Nobuko
- Ayako Hosho as Yasu Naganuma
- Taketoshi Naitō as Director Sawada
- Yoshi Katō as Sokichi Naganuma
- Minori Terada