Chikage Awashima
Acting
🎂 1924-02-24
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.
Cast credits(114)
Yayoi Koko
1994
花岡ウメ
2006
1982
水川コウ
1994
1959
Murayama Taka
1963
1964
1963
1967
2005
1964
Utako Ieiri
2001
1963
Kakie Goi
1963
1986
Natsuo Narumi
1960
Banno Keiko
1965
Tôfuku Kin
1959
1962
1963
1963
1962
1965
Tamayo Komatsubara
1961
1962
1961
Aya Tamura
1951
1953
Choko
1955
1961
Otatsu
1958
Tose
1958
1968
1962
Ayako Kouno
1961
Masako Sugiyama
1956
Yoshino
1958
Katsura's mother
1966
Taka Kawashima
1959
1952
Keiko
1961
Omaki
1957
Kitsuki
1960
Omaki
1958
Omaki
1957
Kikuno Katagiri
1962
絵島
1955
1958
Itsuko
1951
村山たか女
1953
1955
1954
Omaki
1957
Aya Amamiya
1952
Ofusa
1961
Machiko Yoshida
1957
1961
Self
1983
1953
1951
1952
Sonoko Takada
1959
1973
1961
1952
Shigeko Ichikawa
2010
1983
1979
Umeko the Madam
1962
Otaka Inaba
1956
1951
1954
1957
1953
Nogami
1961
Yukiko
1959
1957
お藤
1955
芸者おりき
1954
1957
1985
1954
1956
1957
Yae
1958
Madame Renko
1961
1953
Oren
1964
1962
1959
1959
1961
1955
1953
Chidori
1952
Riku Ôishi
1958
Ryu Sakuma:
1997
Nobuko Miki
1955
1954
Sakon Murayama
1960
1962
1962
1999
1952
Otoku
1956
Hanae Hanamura
1957
1961
Ogin
1960
1961
照世
1952
八雲太夫
1952
1950
Maki
1960