Chieko Naniwa (浪花 千栄子) (November 19, 1907 – December 22, 1973) was a Japanese actress who was active from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Naniwa was born to poultry farmers in what is now Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan on November 19, 1907.

In 1948, Shibuya started his own theater called the Shochiku Shinkigeki, where Naniwa was the lead actress.

[1] She also began appearing in films again, such as in Kenji Mizoguchi's A Geisha (1953),[2] which won her a Blue Ribbon Award.

She also performed with Hisaya Morishige in Meoto Zenzai (1955), in Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957)[3] and Yasujiro Ozu's Equinox Flower (1958).