Chieko Matsubara: Chieko Matsubara. Actress: Ame no naka ni kiete. Having started acting as a teenager, Matsubara Chieko was soon in roles as a grown-up for Nikkatsu Studio - which had hired her on contract following a beauty contest - in films like Cruel Gun Story or the infamous Tokyo Drifter for director Suzuki Seijun where she played a cool and mysterious love interest. Many thought of her as one of the...
