Chieko Was Born on June 29, 1941 in the civilian district of Tokyo. His father was a driver at the Tokyo Metropolitan Tramway Company, and his mother was a poor family member who was running the housework at home. Chieko, who grew up in a commoner family, has known from an early age how to help her parents share family responsibilities. When she was in elementary school, she made nursery rhyme records to earn money, and her parents later sent her to the Shochiku Dance music school for further study;
In 1960, Chieko Hatsumasa graduated with honors from the Shochiku Dance Music School and joined the Shochiku Opera Company. After winning the Newcomer Award while participating in the dance drama Tokyo Dance, she was discovered by director Noboru Nakamura of Shochiku Productions, and at the suggestion of director Noboru Nakamura, Chieko Hatsui quit the Shochiku Opera Troupe in 1961 and joined Shochiku Productions as a film actress.
In 1961, the 20-year-old Seneko Nobuyoshi first played a role as a full-time actress in "Class Girl" directed by Noboru Nakamura, and she won the praise of the audience for her simple and innocent and moving performance. People have commented that among the many young actresses in Japan, the best at playing the role of poor women is also a reward for Chieko. Based on this, Shochiku also consciously trained her to be an actress who specialized in poor female roles, contrasting her with Fumiko Wakao, the protagonist of love stories at Shochiku at that time.
In fact, the greatest luck in the life of Chieko is to meet the famous Japanese director Yoji Yamada; it can be said that without Yoji Yamada, we will not be able to see many wonderful performances of Chieko;
Starting from the movie "The Story of the Civilian Area", Chieko Has starred in films such as "The Story of Injiro", "Hometown", "Family", "Compatriots", "Family", "Happy Yellow Handkerchief", "The Call of the Distant Mountains" and other films directed by Yoji Yamada.
The collaboration with Yoji Yamada brought the greatest opportunity in her life to Chieko, and in 1970, for her outstanding performance in the film "Family", Chieko won the Best Actress Award in the "Movie Shunbun", the Best Actress Award in the "Mainichi Movie" Competition, and the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Award. She is the fourth person in the Japanese film industry to win the Minister of Education Award after Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takayama, and Toshiro Mifune. Chieko became a popular star in the Japanese film industry.
Chinese audiences are most familiar with and welcome films such as "The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness" and "The Call of the Distant Mountains" by Chieko, and the Sino-Japanese film cultural exchange in the mid-1980s has made people know Japanese movie stars such as Tanaka Atsuyo, Yoshinaga Sayuri, Chieko, Kurihara Komaki, etc., and also learned about the originally unfamiliar Japanese culture from the film;
The film "The Call of the Distant Mountains" is a memorable performance of Chieko, which is unforgettable; perhaps the plot is too simple, but people are still deeply attracted to the film. Especially at the end of the film, the dialogue between Akita, Minko and Tajima Kosai when they meet in the car makes people tear up, which is a good film in the history of Japanese cinema;
In 1986, he won the second "Tanaka Silk Award" awarded by "Mainichi Movie". She is considered to be the best star in the Japanese film industry today to perform civilian women, and enjoys a very high reputation.
Seneko, who has reached the age of eighty, is still active in the Japanese film industry, and she has written a lot in her life, starring in or participating in more than 130 film and television works, and is a film performance artist who makes people extremely respected;