Sachiko Chiba

Biography

Actress Sachiko Chiba was born to an upper-class family as Tsuruko Chiba. She learnt to play koto and other musical instruments growing up and even travelled to the United States Of America to showcase her skills with the former instruments. Most directors treated her kindly, except Naruse Mikio, who at one point on the set of Tsuma Yo Bara No Yô Ni even made her cry. She ended up marrying the man who put her acting down less than two years later. Her mother asked Naruse to join her family as opposed to the other way around. Moreover, due to differences in classes and a clash between Chiba's mother and Naruse the differences continued and culminated in a divorce. Naruse, nonetheless, suggested they remarry if Chiba's mother dies. In the meanwhile, acquiescing to her mother's wishes she quit the acting profession and instead managed a high-end restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo called Kicchouso.