Ineko Arima

is a Japanese stage and film actress. She has appeared in films of directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kon Ichikawa. In 1954, Arima co-founded Ninjin Club with Keiko Kishi and Yoshiko Kuga.

Personal life Born as Moriko Nakanishi, she is the youngest of six siblings. Her parents were labor activists who went into hiding, which led to her aunt and her husband adopting her. After the war ended, she returned to her family in Osaka, where her father turned out to be abusive and eventually left. Influenced by her adoptive mother, who was once a Takarazuka Revue actress, she joined the troupe and became known as Ineko Anima the Second, performing male roles, before joining the film industry.

She had extramarital affair with Kon Ichikawa.

Selected filmography

Film Year Title Role Director Ref 1954 Late Chrysanthemums Sachiko Mikio Naruse 1957 Black River Shizuko Masaki Kobayashi Tokyo Twilight Akiko Sugiyama Yasujirō Ozu 1958 Night Drum Otane Ogura Tadashi Imai Equinox Flower Setsuko Hirayama Yasujirō Ozu 1959 Farewell to Spring Keisuke Kinoshita The Human Condition Yang Chunlan Masaki Kobayashi 1962 Love Under the Crucifix Ogin Kinuyo Tanaka Mitasareta seikatsu Junko Asakura Susumu Hani 1963 Bushido, Samurai Saga Maki Tadashi Imai 1965 Tokugawa Ieyasu Odai no Kata Daisuke Itō 2001 Closed Ward Dr. Takase Susumu Fukuhara 2008 Dreaming Awake Emiko Takeo Kimura 2019 The Master of Funerals Naofumi Higuchi

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