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
1967
1966
- Big Wind at the Spa
- How to Win a Race
- Watashi, chigatteiru kashira as Katsura's mother
1965
1964
1963
- Life of a Flower as Murayama Taka
- New Marital Relations
- Pressure of Guilt
- Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai as Kakie Goi
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Yasuko Sugishita (Daisaku’s wife)
- The Life of Rikisha-Man
- The Maid Story
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
1962
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- The King
- Tatsu as Umeko the Madam
- Born in Sin
- Four Sisters as Kikuno Katagiri
- Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa
- Aru kankei
- Hagure kigeki mandara
1961
- Girls of the Night as Nogami
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- Shadow of a Flower
- Aces Wild
- Mama o uchi ga moeteru no
- The Shrikes
- The Diplomat's Mansion as Senko Oumi, Madam
- The Other Woman as Ayako Kouno
- Restoration Fire as Ofusa
- An Urban Affair as Tamayo Komatsubara
- Edo Purebreed
- Rascals! Go to Hell
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox as Keiko
- Furimuita hanayome as Madame Renko
- Love and the Shop Curtain
1960
- The Curio Master
- The Five Jolly Thieves
- Runway to Hell as Ogin
- The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night as Natsuo Narumi
- The Master Spearman as Sakon Murayama
- The Brass General as Maki
- Honno-Ji in Flames as Kitsuki
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Tôfuku Kin
- Pilgrimage at Night as Oei
- Room for Let as Yukiko
- Image of a Mother as Sonoko Takada
- Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
- Flower Shop Curtain as Taka Kawashima
- An Actor's Revenge
- Bringing Up Husbands
1958
- Summer Clouds as Yae
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Riku Ôishi
- Firefly Light as Tose
- Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion as Yoshino
- Oban kanketsu hen as Omaki
- The Hotelman's Holiday as Otatsu
- Makeraremasen katsumadewa
1957
- A Woman's Skin
- Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Omaki
- Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- Ôban as Omaki
- Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Omaki
- Hadaka no Machi
- Dancing Girl as Hanae Hanamura
- Evening Calm
- Secret of Naruto
- Yellow Crow as Machiko Yoshida
1956
- Studio wa ōsawagi
- Early Spring as Masako Sugiyama
- The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
- New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune
- Careful Wife and Careless Wife: A Peaceful Couple
- Bridge of Japan as Otaka Inaba
- Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
- Zangiku monogatari as Otoku
- Rakuten fujin as Midori Sakaguchi
1955
- Ejima and Ikushima as 絵島
- Marital Relations as Choko
- Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
- The Mask and Destiny
- A Woman's Life as Nobuko Miki
- Every Day That New Life
- The Further Adventures of Genta
- 八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線 as お藤
1954
1953
1952
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice as Aya Amamiya
- Carmen's Innocent Love as Chidori
- Tange Sazen
- The Waves
- Doctor's Day Off
- 武蔵と小次郎 as 照世
- Merry Migratory Birds
1951
- Early Summer as Aya Tamura
- The Good Fairy as Itsuko
- Freedom School
- Beauty of Life