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