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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 24, 1924
Died
February 16, 2012
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- Keiko Nakagawa
- 淡島千景
- Тикагэ Авасима
Chikage Awashima
1.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
Haru's Journey
as Shigeko Ichikawa
2010
6.5
Imo Tako Nankin
as 花岡ウメ
2006
10.0
Until the Lights Come Back
2005
6.0
Siberian Express 2
as Utako Ieiri
2001
0.0
Hometown
1999
0.0
Going West: to the West
as Ryu Sakuma:
1997
0.0
Haru yo koi
as 水川コウ
1994
0.0
The Friends
as Yayoi Koko
1994
7.3
Metamorphosis
1986
4.5
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 母は敵か？！正雪の陰謀
1985
0.0
I Lived, But...
as Self
1983
6.5
Children of Nagasaki
1983
6.1
Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
1982
0.0
Red Storm
1979
0.0
Omoi Bashi
1973
0.0
Tales of the Inner Chamber
1968
3.8
A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station
1967
0.0
Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
as Katsura's mother
1966
0.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
as Banno Keiko
1965
0.0
The Last Judgment
1965
0.0
Roadside Stone
as Oren
1964
6.5
Hot Spring Ghost
1964
0.0
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
1964
0.0
Akō Rōshi
1964
7.5
The Maid Story
1963
0.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
1963
0.0
The Life of Rikisha-Man
1963
0.0
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
as Kakie Goi
1963
0.0
Life of a Flower
as Murayama Taka
1963
7.0
Pressure of Guilt
1963
7.0
Devices Stronger Than Women
as Yasuko Sugishita (Daisaku’s wife)
1963
0.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
1962
0.0
The King
1962
0.0
Born in Sin
1962
0.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
1962
0.0
Four Sisters
as Kikuno Katagiri
1962
6.0
Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa
1962
0.0
Home-Brewed Tatsu
as Umeko the Madam
1962
0.0
Hagure kigeki mandara
1962
0.0
Aru kankei
1962
0.0
Rascals! Go to Hell
1961
0.0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
as Keiko
1961
0.0
Kaei
1961
0.0
Restoration Fire
as Ofusa
1961
7.0
🎬
Furimuita hanayome
as Madame Renko
1961
0.0
Girls of the Night
as Nogami
1961
6.4
An Urban Affair
as Tamayo Komatsubara
1961
0.0
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
0.0
The Other Woman
as Ayako Kouno
1961
6.3
Love and the Shop Curtain
1961
0.0
The Shrikes
1961
0.0
Edo Purebreed
1961
0.0
Aces Wild
1961
0.0
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
as Natsuo Narumi
1960
0.0
The Brass General
as Maki
1960
0.0
Honno-Ji in Flames
as Kitsuki
1960
5.0
The Master Spearman
as Sakon Murayama
1960
5.2
Runway to Hell
as Ogin
1960
6.5
An Actor's Revenge
1959
6.0
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
1959
0.0
Pilgrimage at Night
1959
0.0
Room for Let
as Yukiko
1959
6.0
Bringing Up Husbands
1959
0.0
Image of a Mother
as Sonoko Takada
1959
8.5
Flower Shop Curtain
as Taka Kawashima
1959
0.0
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Tôfuku Kin
1959
8.1
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
as Yoshino
1958
0.0
Summer Clouds
as Yae
1958
7.5
The Hotelman's Holiday
as Otatsu
1958
0.0
Oban kanketsu hen
as Omaki
1958
0.0
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Riku Ôishi
1958
6.0
Firefly Light
as Tose
1958
0.0
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
1958
0.0
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Omaki
1957
0.0
The Unbalanced Wheel
1957
0.0
Secret of Naruto
1957
6.9
Hadaka no Machi
1957
0.0
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Omaki
1957
0.0
🎬
Evening Calm
1957
0.0
Ôban
as Omaki
1957
0.0
Yellow Crow
as Machiko Yoshida
1957
6.2
Dancing Girl
as Hanae Hanamura
1957
6.0
Bridge of Japan
as Otaka Inaba
1956
7.3
🎬
Rakuten fujin
as Midori Sakaguchi
1956
0.0
Zangiku monogatari
as Otoku
1956
7.0
春のみづうみ
1956
0.0
Early Spring
as Masako Sugiyama
1956
7.5
Ejima and Ikushima
as 絵島
1955
0.0
Marital Relations
as Choko
1955
5.2
🎬
The Mask and Destiny
1955
0.0
The Further Adventures of Genta
1955
0.0
A Woman's Life
as Nobuko Miki
1955
0.0
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
as お藤
1955
0.0
Chushingura
1954
0.0
Edo no yubae
as 芸者おりき
1954
0.0
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1954
0.0
Always in My Heart Part 3
1954
7.0
Love and Duty
1954
0.0
Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
6.5
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
6.1
Hana no shôgai
as 村山たか女
1953
0.0
Always in My Heart
1953
6.8
Ganpeki
1953
0.0
Yassamossa
1953
0.0
Carmen's Innocent Love
as Chidori
1952
5.1
武蔵と小次郎
as 照世
1952
0.0
武蔵と小次郎
as 八雲太夫
1952
0.0
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
as Aya Amamiya
1952
7.6
Tange Sazen
1952
0.0
The Waves
1952
5.0
Doctor's Day Off
1952
6.0
Merry Migratory Birds
1952
0.0
Beauty of Life
1951
0.0
Early Summer
as Aya Tamura
1951
7.8
Freedom School
1951
0.0
The Good Fairy
as Itsuko
1951
5.1
Crazy Uproar
1950
0.0
The Foster Mother
N/A
0.0