Chikage Awashima
Acting • Born 1924-02-24 – Died 2012-02-16
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
118 credits
An Urban Affair
Movie • 1961
Tamayo Komatsubara
Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Masako Sugiyama
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Tôfuku Kin
The King
Movie • 1962
The Life of Rikisha-Man
Movie • 1963
Aru kankei
Movie • 1962
Hagure kigeki mandara
Movie • 1962
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Movie • 1960
Natsuo Narumi
Home-Brewed Tatsu
Movie • 1962
Umeko the Madam
Kaei
Movie • 1961
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Movie • 1952
Aya Amamiya
Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
Movie • 1966
Katsura's mother
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Movie • 1957
Omaki
Oban kanketsu hen
Movie • 1958
Omaki
Ôban
Movie • 1957
Omaki
The Mask and Destiny
Movie • 1955
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Movie • 1957
Omaki
Haru's Journey
Movie • 2010
Shigeko Ichikawa
I Lived, But...
Movie • 1983
Self
The Friends
Movie • 1994
Yayoi Koko
Summer Clouds
Movie • 1958
Yae
Flower Shop Curtain
Movie • 1959
Taka Kawashima
Children of Nagasaki
Movie • 1983
The Good Fairy
Movie • 1951
Itsuko
Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa
Movie • 1962
The Other Woman
Movie • 1961
Ayako Kouno
Girls of the Night
Movie • 1961
Nogami
Evening Calm
Movie • 1957
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Movie • 1962
武蔵と小次郎
Movie • 1952
照世
武蔵と小次郎
Movie • 1952
八雲太夫
Hana no shôgai
Movie • 1953
村山たか女
Edo no yubae
Movie • 1954
芸者おりき
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Movie • 1961
Keiko
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Movie • 1955
お藤
Ejima and Ikushima
Movie • 1955
絵島
Aces Wild
Movie • 1961
Marital Relations
Movie • 1955
Choko
Yellow Crow
Movie • 1957
Machiko Yoshida
Carmen's Innocent Love
Movie • 1952
Chidori
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie • 1953
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Movie • 1959
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
Movie • 1962
Doctor's Day Off
Movie • 1952
The Further Adventures of Genta
Movie • 1955
Love and the Shop Curtain
Movie • 1961
春のみづうみ
Movie • 1956
Bridge of Japan
Movie • 1956
Otaka Inaba
Freedom School
Movie • 1951
Hadaka no Machi
Movie • 1957
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Movie • 1954
Roadside Stone
Movie • 1964
Oren
Always in My Heart Part 3
Movie • 1954
Always in My Heart Part 2
Movie • 1953
Always in My Heart
Movie • 1953
Firefly Light
Movie • 1958
Tose
Secret of Naruto
Movie • 1957
Furimuita hanayome
Movie • 1961
Madame Renko
An Actor's Revenge
Movie • 1959
Runway to Hell
Movie • 1960
Ogin
The Master Spearman
Movie • 1960
Sakon Murayama
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Movie • 1958
Riku Ôishi
The Foster Mother
Movie
Rascals! Go to Hell
Movie • 1961
Edo Purebreed
Movie • 1961
The Unbalanced Wheel
Movie • 1957
Four Sisters
Movie • 1962
Kikuno Katagiri
Siberian Express 2
Movie • 2001
Utako Ieiri
Room for Let
Movie • 1959
Yukiko
The Waves
Movie • 1952
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Movie • 1958
Yoshino
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Movie • 1958
Born in Sin
Movie • 1962
Honno-Ji in Flames
Movie • 1960
Kitsuki
The Maid Story
Movie • 1963
Early Summer
Movie • 1951
Aya Tamura
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1957
Hanae Hanamura
The Shrikes
Movie • 1961
Tange Sazen
Movie • 1952
The Hotelman's Holiday
Movie • 1958
Otatsu
Pressure of Guilt
Movie • 1963
Love and Duty
Movie • 1954
A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
Movie • 1965
Banno Keiko
Yassamossa
Movie • 1953
Pilgrimage at Night
Movie • 1959
A Woman's Life
Movie • 1955
Nobuko Miki
Crazy Uproar
Movie • 1950
Restoration Fire
Movie • 1961
Ofusa
Image of a Mother
Movie • 1959
Sonoko Takada
Metamorphosis
Movie • 1986
Tales of the Inner Chamber
Movie • 1968
Chushingura
Movie • 1954
The Last Judgment
Movie • 1965
Zangiku monogatari
Movie • 1956
Otoku
Until the Lights Come Back
Movie • 2005
Beauty of Life
Movie • 1951
A Good Man, A Good Day
Movie • 1961
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Movie • 1963
Kakie Goi
Ganpeki
Movie • 1953
Merry Migratory Birds
Movie • 1952
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
Movie • 1963
A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station
Movie • 1967
Hot Spring Ghost
Movie • 1964
Going West: to the West
Movie • 1997
Ryu Sakuma:
Hometown
Movie • 1999
The Brass General
Movie • 1960
Maki
Devices Stronger Than Women
Movie • 1963
Yasuko Sugishita (Daisaku’s wife)
Bringing Up Husbands
Movie • 1959
Rakuten fujin
Movie • 1956
Midori Sakaguchi
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Movie • 1964
Akō Rōshi
TV • 1964
Life of a Flower
TV • 1963
Murayama Taka
Red Storm
TV • 1979
Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
TV • 1982
Omoi Bashi
TV • 1973
Imo Tako Nankin
TV • 2006
花岡ウメ
Haru yo koi
TV • 1994
水川コウ
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 母は敵か？！正雪の陰謀
TV • 1985