Date of birth: 1945-01-06
Place of birth: Ikeda, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Matsubara Chieko, 松原智惠子, 마츠바라 치에코, چیکو ماتسوبارا

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.

2002-10-12
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided

2023-01-13
When three drag queens, Virgin, Moririn, and Zubuko, learn that their mentor and former drag queen,

1964-01-12
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between tw

1966-11-09
Sequel to Tokyo Drifter

1963-02-11
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara

1968-12-14
A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.

1963-11-23
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia

1962-03-18
1962 Japanese movie

2008-09-06
Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Sab

1966-04-10
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur

1969-03-21
A young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her fri

1961-12-06

1966-02-12
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane bac

2016-09-17
A schoolboy has a crush on his pretty class-mate Keiko on the inland island of Awaji. He figures her

1997-10-04
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One d

1969-05-14

1970-04-04

1964-02-01
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the

1970-04-04
A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

1961-04-23
1961 Japanese movie

2004-05-08
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shini

2008-11-24
Yasushi and Yuka, who have both lost their spouses in the past, are brought together by fate and lea

1963-02-02
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

1961-10-14
The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took respons

1970-02-21
In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is

1970-08-14
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A

1969-12-31

1967-11-18
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money

1990-01-02
A film by Akiyoshi Imazeki. Emi is a 16-year-old girl who lives in Enoshima. An adolescent movie dep

1962-07-29
1962 Japanese movie

1969-01-11
A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student,

1966-08-13
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

2016-10-22

1967-10-23
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriag

1968-10-14
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employe

1966-12-24
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention ce

1961-09-10
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

1971-04-24
A 1971 crime film

1962-09-22
1962 Japanese movie

1967-09-23
Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his

1968-03-11
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are a

1962-06-10
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza

1963-08-31
A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nik

1961-11-12
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in

2007-04-14
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up tog

2013-02-02
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while

1962-10-21
1962 Japanese movie

1990-10-20

1964-12-19
Kobayashi Akira stars as a wandering musician, who lost his brother and lover to dishonest rival Hen

2011-08-02
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with

1976-12-25
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Mom

2015-06-07

1969-06-28
Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity wi

1967-05-20
Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts w

2012-03-03

2009-11-21
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicis

1978-04-08

2004-04-17
A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is da

1968-01-13
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, h

1964-02-08
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing

1969-05-01
Youth drama

1965-05-26
Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she i

1971-10-27
The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

2016-03-05
Yusuke (Kirato Wakayama) is in the 6th grade of elementary school. He has lived in the city all of h

1968-04-28
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his cond

1968-08-01
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gamblin

1968-11-02
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai

1968-12-28
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the midd

1969-03-14
Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain

1964-12-06
Japanese comedy film.

1966-08-27
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their
1966-05-18
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

1964-10-03
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

1980-06-07
A despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Mat

1980-08-02
The mysterious death of a trading company employee on an overseas business trip triggers a corruptio

2017-01-07
A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriag

1976-04-24
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around

1970-11-12
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grad

1965-09-04
1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in

1964-08-14
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

2005-01-11
Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when

2014-10-18
A high school student has decided to go to Tokyo once she graduates. One day, her older sister Sumir

1965-08-14
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of mot

1967-11-03
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I

1962-02-03
Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped

2019-03-26
Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help

2001-05-12
True story of a number of Imperial Japanese Army officers and soldiers who remained in Indonesia to

1965-12-18
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollar

1966-07-09
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive me

1963-12-15
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs

1967-08-26
The Spiders, a Japanese pop group, in their first starring role, walk from Yokohama to Tokyo, to pro

1965-03-06
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was

1966-06-01
College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club

1968-05-29

1961-05-22
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eigh

2014-01-08
Pikanchi Half is a spin-off of the two previous movies in the Pikanchi series, showing the five frie

2019-02-15
Daichi (Mahiro Takasugi) is a young dental technician. He is called a prince due to his excellent sk

1964-02-23
1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

1969-09-27
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her fa

2011-10-01
The story of an ordinary family where upon the grandmother's death Kanji becomes an alcoholic homebo

1971-05-05
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However,

1964-03-14
Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love wit

1961-04-17

1961-07-15

1961-09-02
A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman purs

1965-02-13

1965-07-03

1963-06-16
This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of

1967-08-12
Bonta comes to Tokyo with the determination to rule the world, gets a job at a lingerie company, and

1963-08-25
A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a workin

2012-08-11

2021-11-09

2025-10-05
Akashi is a multigenerational love story told across parallel timelines. Kana, a struggling artist i

1963-04-14
a modest family struck by hardship after a tragic event. The film explores the sacrifices of a broth

1969-11-01
1969 Japanese movie

1963-08-11
This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together w

1963-10-13
A romantic story about a knight who becomes involved in the murder of his brother's wife and ultimat

1963-09-29