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.
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TV Series
Akō Rōshi
7.5
Life of a Flower
7
Akai Arashi
0
Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
0
Omoi Bashi
0
Imo Tako Nankin
10
Haru yo koi
0
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 母は敵か？！正雪の陰謀
0
Movies
An Urban Affair
0
Early Spring
7.5
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.097
The King
0
The Life of Rikisha-Man
0
Aru kankei
0
Hagure kigeki mandara
0
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
0
Home-Brewed Tatsu
0
Kaei
0
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
7.532
Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
0
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
0
Oban kanketsu hen
0
Ôban
0
The Mask and Destiny
0
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
0
Haru's Journey
6.5
I Lived, But...
6.5
The Friends
7
Summer Clouds
7.5
Flower Shop Curtain
0
Children of Nagasaki
6.2
The Good Fairy
5.5
Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa
0
The Other Woman
6.3
Girls of the Night
6.9
Evening Calm
0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
0
武蔵と小次郎
0
武蔵と小次郎
0
Hana no shôgai
0
Edo no yubae
0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
0
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
0
Ejima and Ikushima
0
Aces Wild
0
Carmen's Innocent Love
5.8
Marital Relations
5.2
Yellow Crow
6.167
An Inlet of Muddy Water
6.1
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
0
Doctor's Day Off
6
The Further Adventures of Genta
0
Love and the Shop Curtain
0
春のみづうみ
0
Bridge of Japan
7.3
Freedom School
0
Hadaka no Machi
0
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
0
Roadside Stone
6.5
Always in My Heart
6.8
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.5
Always in My Heart Part 3
7
Firefly Light
0
Secret of Naruto
6.9
Furimuita hanayome
0
An Actor's Revenge
6
Runway to Hell
6.5
The Master Spearman
5.2
The Loyal 47 Ronin
6
The Foster Mother
0
Rascals! Go to Hell
0
Edo Purebreed
0
The Unbalanced Wheel
0
Four Sisters
6
Siberian Express 2
0
Room for Let
6
The Waves
5
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
0
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
0
Born in Sin
0
Honno-Ji in Flames
5
The Maid Story
0
Early Summer
7.843
Dancing Girl
6
The Shrikes
0
Tange Sazen
0
The Hotelman's Holiday
0
Pressure of Guilt
7
Love and Duty
0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
0
Yassamossa
0
Pilgrimage at Night
0
A Woman's Life
0
Crazy Uproar
0
Restoration Fire
7
Image of a Mother
10
Metamorphosis
5.2
Tales of the Inner Chamber
4.3
Chushingura
0
The Last Judgment
0
Zangiku monogatari
7
Until the Lights Come Back
6
Beauty of Life
0
A Good Man, A Good Day
0
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
0
Ganpeki
0
Merry Migratory Birds
0
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
0
A Hundred-Years' Comedy in Front of the Station
0
Hot Spring Ghost
0