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
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: University as Banno Keiko
- The Last Judgment
1964
1963
- Life of a Flower as Murayama Taka
- Pressure of Guilt
- The Maid Story
- Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai as Kakie Goi
- The Life of Rikisha-Man
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Yasuko Sugishita (Daisaku’s wife)
1962
- The King
- Four Sisters as Kikuno Katagiri
- Born in Sin
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- Tatsu as Umeko the Madam
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
- Hagure kigeki mandara
- Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa
- Aru kankei
1961
- Restoration Fire as Ofusa
- Girls of the Night as Nogami
- Edo Purebreed
- Love and the Shop Curtain
- Aces Wild
- The Other Woman as Ayako Kouno
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox as Keiko
- Kaei
- An Urban Affair as Tamayo Komatsubara
- Furimuita hanayome as Madame Renko
- A Good Man, A Good Day
- Rascals! Go to Hell
- The Shrikes
- The Diplomat's Mansion as Senko Oumi, Madam
1960
- Honno-Ji in Flames as Kitsuki
- The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night as Natsuo Narumi
- The Master Spearman as Sakon Murayama
- Runway to Hell as Ogin
- The Brass General as Maki
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Tôfuku Kin
- An Actor's Revenge
- Flower Shop Curtain as Taka Kawashima
- Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
- Pilgrimage at Night
- Image of a Mother as Sonoko Takada
- Room for Let as Yukiko
- Bringing Up Husbands
1958
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Riku Ôishi
- Summer Clouds as Yae
- 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
- Ôban as Omaki
- Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen as Omaki
- Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen as Omaki
- Yellow Crow as Machiko Yoshida
- Secret of Naruto
- Evening Calm
- Dancing Girl as Hanae Hanamura
- The Unbalanced Wheel
- Hadaka no Machi
- Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku
1956
- Early Spring as Masako Sugiyama
- Bridge of Japan as Otaka Inaba
- Zangiku monogatari as Otoku
- Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
- Rakuten fujin as Midori Sakaguchi
- The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
1955
- Marital Relations as Choko
- A Woman's Life as Nobuko Miki
- Ejima and Ikushima as 絵島
- The Further Adventures of Genta
- The Mask and Destiny
- Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
- 八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線 as お藤
- Every Day That New Life
1954
1953
1952
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice as Aya Amamiya
- Tange Sazen
- Doctor's Day Off
- Carmen's Innocent Love as Chidori
- 武蔵と小次郎 as 八雲太夫
- Merry Migratory Birds
- The Waves
1951
- Early Summer as Aya Tamura
- Freedom School
- Beauty of Life
- The Good Fairy as Itsuko