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Chikage Awashima

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: Acting

Born: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, 1924-02-24

Died: 2012-02-16

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Crazy Uproar		0
2	1951	The Good Fairy	Itsuko	55
3	1951	Freedom School		0
4	1951	Early Summer	Aya Tamura	79
5	1951	Beauty of Life		0
6	1952	Merry Migratory Birds		0
7	1952	Doctor's Day Off		60
8	1952	The Waves		50
9	1952	Tange Sazen		0
10	1952	The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice	Aya Amamiya	75
11	1952	武蔵と小次郎	八雲太夫	0
12	1952	武蔵と小次郎	照世	0
13	1952	Carmen's Innocent Love	Chidori	58
14	1953	Yassamossa		0
15	1953	Ganpeki		0
16	1953	Always in My Heart		68
17	1953	Hana no shôgai	村山たか女	0
18	1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water		61
19	1953	Always in My Heart Part 2		65
20	1954	Love and Duty		0
21	1954	Always in My Heart Part 3		70
22	1954	Between Yesterday and Tomorrow		0
23	1954	Edo no yubae	芸者おりき	0
24	1954	Chushingura		0
25	1955	八州遊侠伝白鷺三味線	お藤	0
26	1955	A Woman's Life	Nobuko Miki	0
27	1955	The Further Adventures of Genta		0
28	1955	The Mask and Destiny		0
29	1955	Marital Relations	Choko	52
30	1955	Ejima and Ikushima	絵島	0
31	1956	Early Spring	Masako Sugiyama	75
32	1956	春のみづうみ		0
33	1956	Zangiku monogatari	Otoku	70
34	1956	Bridge of Japan	Otaka Inaba	73
35	1957	Dancing Girl	Hanae Hanamura	60
36	1957	Yellow Crow	Machiko Yoshida	62
37	1957	Ôban	Omaki	0
38	1957	Evening Calm		0
39	1957	Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen	Omaki	0
40	1957	Hadaka no Machi		0
41	1957	Secret of Naruto		69
42	1957	The Unbalanced Wheel		0
43	1957	Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen	Omaki	0
44	1958	Makeraremasen katsumadewa		0
45	1958	Firefly Light	Tose	0
46	1958	The Loyal 47 Ronin	Riku Ôishi	60
47	1958	Oban kanketsu hen	Omaki	0
48	1958	The Hotelman's Holiday	Otatsu	0
49	1958	Summer Clouds	Yae	75
50	1958	Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion	Yoshino	0
51	1959	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love	Tôfuku Kin	81
52	1959	Flower Shop Curtain	Taka Kawashima	0
53	1959	Image of a Mother	Sonoko Takada	85
54	1959	Room for Let	Yukiko	60
55	1959	Pilgrimage at Night		0
56	1959	Utamaro, Painter of the Woman		0
57	1959	An Actor's Revenge		60
58	1960	Runway to Hell	Ogin	65
59	1960	The Master Spearman	Sakon Murayama	52
60	1961	Edo Purebreed		0
61	1961	A Good Man, A Good Day		0
62	1961	Furimuita hanayome	Madame Renko	0
63		The Foster Mother		0
64	1960	Honno-Ji in Flames	Kitsuki	50
65	1960	The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night	Natsuo Narumi	0
66	1961	Aces Wild		0
67	1961	The Shrikes		0
68	1961	Love and the Shop Curtain		0
69	1961	The Other Woman	Ayako Kouno	63
70	1961	An Urban Affair	Tamayo Komatsubara	0
71	1961	Girls of the Night	Nogami	69
72	1961	Restoration Fire	Ofusa	70
73	1961	Kaei		0
74	1961	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox	Keiko	0
75	1961	Rascals! Go to Hell		0
76	1962	Aru kankei		0
77	1962	Hagure kigeki mandara		0
78	1962	Home-Brewed Tatsu	Umeko the Madam	0
79	1962	Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa		0
80	1962	Four Sisters	Kikuno Katagiri	60
81	1962	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen		0
82	1962	The King		0
83	1962	Born in Sin		0
84	1962	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant		0
85	1963	Pressure of Guilt		70
86	1963	Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai	Kakie Goi	0
87	1963	The Life of Rikisha-Man		0
88	1963	A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot		0
89	1963	The Maid Story		0
90	1964	Hot Spring Ghost		0
91	1964	Roadside Stone	Oren	65
92	1965	The Last Judgment		0
93	1965	A Comedy in Front of the Station: University	Banno Keiko	0
94	1966	Watashi, chigatteiru kashira	Katsura's mother	0
95	1967	A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station		0
96	1968	Tales of the Inner Chamber		43
97	1983	Children of Nagasaki		62
98	1983	I Lived, But...	Self	65
99	1986	Metamorphosis		52
100	1994	The Friends	Yayoi Koko	71
101	2001	Siberian Express 2	Utako Ieiri	0
102	2005	Until the Lights Come Back		60
103	2010	Haru's Journey	Shigeko Ichikawa	65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1963	Life of a Flower	Murayama Taka	70
2	1964	Akō Rōshi		75
3	1973	Omoi Bashi		0
4	1979	Akai Arashi		0
5	1982	Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho		0
6	1985	長七郎江戸日記スペシャル　母は敵か？！正雪の陰謀		0
7	1994	Haru yo koi	水川コウ	0
8	2006	Imo Tako Nankin	花岡ウメ	100