Chikage Awashima
Born: 1924-02-24 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2012-02-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Chikage Awashima (淡島 千景, Awashima Chikage, born Keiko Nakagawa, 24 February 1924 – 16 February 2012) was a Japanese film and stage actress. Her stage name drew inspiration from Japanese poetry, and her legacy continues to resonate within the world of entertainment. A graduate from Takarazuka Music and Dance School and member of the Takarazuka Revue, Chikage Awashima entered the Shochiku film studios and made her film debut in 1950. She appeared in films of numerous prominent directors like Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai and Heinosuke Gosho. She received the Blue Ribbon Award twice and the Mainichi Film Award twice for her performances. Awashima retired from stage in 2009. She died on 16 February 2012, aged 87, from cancer.
Filmography
2010
- Haru's Journey as Shigeko Ichikawa
2006
- Imo Tako Nankin as 花岡ウメ
2001
- Siberian Express 2 as Utako Ieiri
1999
1997
- Going West: to the West as Ryu Sakuma:
1994
- Haru yo koi as 水川コウ
- The Friends as Yayoi Koko
1986
1983
- I Lived, But... as Self
- Children of Nagasaki
1979
1973
1966
- Watashi, chigatteiru kashira as Katsura's mother
1965
- The Last Judgment
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: University as Banno Keiko
1964
1963
- Pressure of Guilt
- The Maid Story
- Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai as Kakie Goi
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Yasuko Sugishita (Daisaku’s wife)
- The Life of Rikisha-Man
- Life of a Flower as Murayama Taka
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
1962
1961
- Furimuita hanayome as Madame Renko
- Girls of the Night as Nogami
- Rascals! Go to Hell
- Kaei
- The Other Woman as Ayako Kouno
- An Urban Affair as Tamayo Komatsubara
- Edo Purebreed
- Aces Wild
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox as Keiko
- The Shrikes
- Restoration Fire as Ofusa
- Love and the Shop Curtain
1960
- Honno-Ji in Flames as Kitsuki
- Runway to Hell as Ogin
- The Master Spearman as Sakon Murayama
- The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night as Natsuo Narumi
- The Brass General as Maki
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Tôfuku Kin
- Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
- An Actor's Revenge
- Image of a Mother as Sonoko Takada
- Room for Let as Yukiko
- Pilgrimage at Night
- Flower Shop Curtain as Taka Kawashima
- Bringing Up Husbands
1958
- Summer Clouds as Yae
- Firefly Light as Tose
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Riku Ôishi
- Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion as Yoshino
- The Hotelman's Holiday as Otatsu
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
- Oban kanketsu hen as Omaki
1957
- Dancing Girl as Hanae Hanamura
- Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Omaki
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- Secret of Naruto
- Yellow Crow as Machiko Yoshida
- Ôban as Omaki
- Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Omaki
- Hadaka no Machi
- Evening Calm
1956
- Early Spring as Masako Sugiyama
- Bridge of Japan as Otaka Inaba
- Zangiku monogatari as Otoku
- 春のみづうみ
- Rakuten fujin as Midori Sakaguchi
1955
- The Mask and Destiny
- Ejima and Ikushima as 絵島
- A Woman's Life as Nobuko Miki
- 八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線 as お藤
- Marital Relations as Choko
- The Further Adventures of Genta
1954
1953
1952
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice as Aya Amamiya
- Tange Sazen
- Carmen's Innocent Love as Chidori
- Doctor's Day Off
- 武蔵と小次郎 as 照世
- The Waves
- Merry Migratory Birds
1951
- Early Summer as Aya Tamura
- Beauty of Life
- Freedom School
- The Good Fairy as Itsuko