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Chikage Awashima

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Chikage Awashima
Chikage Awashima, ca. 1952.
Born	Keiko Nakagawa (1924-02-24)24 February 1924 Tokyo, Japan
Died	16 February 2012(2012-02-16) (aged 87) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1939–2011

Chikage Awashima (淡島千景, Awashima Chikage, born Keiko Nakagawa, 24 February 1924 – 16 February 2012) was a Japanese film and stage actress.

Life[edit]

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.^[1]^[2] She appeared in films of numerous prominent directors like Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai and Heinosuke Gosho.^[2] She received twice the Blue Ribbon Award and twice the Mainichi Film Award for her performances.^[3]

Awashima retired from the stage in 2009.^[4] On 16 February 2012, eight days before her 88th birthday, she died from cancer.^[5]

Selected filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1950	Ten'ya wan'ya		Minoru Shibuya	Screen debut
1951	The Good Fairy	Itsuko Kitaura	Keisuke Kinoshita
1951	Early Summer	Aya Tamura	Yasujirō Ozu
1952	Nami	Nonomiya	Noboru Nakamura
	The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice	Aya Amamiya	Yasujirō Ozu
	Carmen's Pure Love	Chidori	Keisuke Kinoshita
1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water	O-Riki	Tadashi Imai
1955	Marital Relations	Chōko	Shirō Toyoda
1956	Early Spring	Masako Sugiyama	Yasujirō Ozu
	Zangiku monogatari	Otoku	Koji Shima
	Bridge of Japan	Otaka Inaba	Kon Ichikawa
1957	Yellow Crow	Machiko Yoshida	Heinosuke Gosho
1958	The Loyal 47 Ronin	Riku Ōishi	Kunio Watanabe
	Summer Clouds	Yae	Mikio Naruse
	Nichiren: A Man of Many Miracles	Shirabyōshi	Kunio Watanabe
1959	The Human Condition	Kin	Masaki Kobayashi
1961	As a Wife, As a Woman	Ayako Kōno	Mikio Naruse
	Girls of the Night	Nogami	Kinuyo Tanaka
	Mozu	Sugako Okada	Minoru Shibuya
1968	Ō-oku emaki	Shino	Kōsaku Yamashita
1968	Kigeki ekimae kazan	Keiko Morita	Tatsuo Yamada
1976	Kigeki hyakuten manten	Aki Isogai	Shūe Matsubayashi
1983	Children of Nagasaki	Tsumo	Keisuke Kinoshita
1994	Natsu no niwa	Yayoi Kokō	Shinji Sōmai
2005	Daiteiden no yoru ni	Sayoko	Takashi Minamoto
2010	Haru's Journey	Shigeko Ichiyama	Masahiro Kobayashi

Television[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
1963	Hana no Shōgai	Murayama Taka	NHK	Taiga drama
1964	Akō Rōshi	Osen	NHK	Taiga drama
2006	Imo tako nankin	Ume Hanaoka	NHK	Asadora
2011	Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari	Maki Hasebe	TBS	Final role

Honours[edit]

1950: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress for Ten'ya wan'ya and Okusama ni goyojin^[6]
1955: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress for Marital Relations^[7]
1958: Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress for Summer Clouds and Hotarubi^[8]
1988: Medal with Purple Ribbon
1995: Order of the Precious Crown, 4th Class, Wisteria
1997: Mainichi Film Awards Kinuyo Tanaka Award^[9]

References[edit]

^ "淡島千景 (Chikage Awashima)". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.

^ ^a ^b "淡島千景 (Chikage Awashima)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.

^ "Chikage Awashima – Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 22 February 2021.

^ "淡島千景 (Chikage Awashima)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.

^ "女優の淡島千景さん死去「夫婦善哉」「駅前」で活躍 (Actress Chikage Awashima dies, played in "Meoto Zenzai" and "Ekimae")" (in Japanese). Kyodo News. 16 February 2012. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2021.

^ "1950 Blue Ribbon Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 24 August 2021.

^ "1955 Blue Ribbon Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 24 August 2021.

^ "1958 Mainichi Film Awards" (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 August 2021.

^ "毎日映画コンクール田中絹代賞とは (What is the Mainichi Film Kinuyo Tanaka Award)". Tanaka Kinuyo Memorial Association (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 20 March 2021.

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Awards for Chikage Awashima

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress

Chikage Awashima (1950)
Setsuko Hara (1951)
Isuzu Yamada (1952)
Nobuko Otowa (1953)
Hideko Takamine (1954)
Chikage Awashima (1955)
Isuzu Yamada (1956)
Yūko Mochizuki (1957)
Fujiko Yamamoto (1958)
Tanie Kitabayashi (1959)
Keiko Kishi (1960)
Ayako Wakao (1961)
Sayuri Yoshinaga (1962)
Sachiko Hidari (1963)
Shima Iwashita (1964)
Ayako Wakao (1965)
Yoko Tsukasa (1966)
Ruriko Asaoka (1975)
Kumiko Akiyoshi (1976)
Shima Iwashita (1977)
Meiko Kaji (1978)
Kaori Momoi (1979)
Yukiyo Toake (1980)
Keiko Matsuzaka (1981)
Masako Natsume (1982)
Yūko Tanaka (1983)
Hiroko Yakushimaru (1984)
Yukiyo Toake (1985)
Ayumi Ishida (1986)
Yoshiko Mita (1987)
Kaori Momoi (1988)
Yoshiko Tanaka (1989)
Keiko Matsuzaka (1990)
Youki Kudoh (1991)
Yoshiko Mita (1992)
Ruby Moreno (1993)
Saki Takaoka (1994)
Miho Nakayama (1995)
Mieko Harada (1996)
Kaori Momoi (1997)
Mieko Harada (1998)
Kyōka Suzuki (1999)
Sayuri Yoshinaga (2000)
Yūki Amami (2001)
Reiko Kataoka (2002)
Shinobu Terajima (2003)
Rie Miyazawa (2004)
Kyoko Koizumi (2005)
Yū Aoi (2006)
Kumiko Asō (2007)
Tae Kimura (2008)
Haruka Ayase (2009)
Shinobu Terajima (2010)
Hiromi Nagasaku (2011)
Sakura Ando (2012)
Shihori Kanjiya (2013)
Sakura Ando (2014)
Kasumi Arimura (2015)
Shinobu Otake (2016)
Yui Aragaki (2017)
Mugi Kadowaki (2018)
Masami Nagasawa (2019)
Masami Nagasawa (2020)
Mei Nagano (2021)
Chieko Baisho (2022)
Sayuri Yoshinaga (2023)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress
1940s	Kinuyo Tanaka (1948) Kinuyo Tanaka (1949)
1950s	Setsuko Hara (1950) Machiko Kyō (1951) Setsuko Hara (1952) Isuzu Yamada (1953) Yūko Mochizuki (1954) Hideko Takamine (1955) Hideko Takamine (1956) Isuzu Yamada (1957) Hideko Takamine (1958) Chikage Awashima (1959)
1960s	Tanie Kitabayashi (1960) Keiko Kishi (1961) Hideko Takamine (1962) Mariko Okada (1963) Sachiko Hidari (1964) Machiko Kyō (1965) Sachiko Hidari (1966) Yoko Tsukasa (1967) Shima Iwashita (1968) Nobuko Otowa (1969)
1970s	Shima Iwashita (1970) Chieko Baisho (1971) Junko Fuji (1972) Komaki Kurihara (1973) Atsuko Kaku (1974) Kinuyo Tanaka (1975) Ruriko Asaoka (1976) Kumiko Akiyoshi (1977) Shima Iwashita (1978) Meiko Kaji (1979)
1980s	Kaori Momoi (1980) Chieko Baisho (1981) Chieko Baisho (1982) Keiko Matsuzaka (1983) Yūko Tanaka (1984) Sayuri Yoshinaga (1985) Mitsuko Baisho (1986) Ayumi Ishida (1987) Yukiyo Toake (1988) Kyoko Koizumi (1989)
1990s	Yoshiko Tanaka (1990) Keiko Matsuzaka (1991) Tanie Kitabayashi (1992) Miwako Fujitani (1993) Ruby Moreno (1994) Sayuri Yoshinaga (1995) Haruko Sugimura (1996) Saki Takaoka (1997) Kaori Momoi (1998) Mieko Harada (1999)
2000s	Shinobu Otake (2000) Naomi Fujiyama (2001) Riho Makise (2002) Nene Otsuka (2003) Shinobu Terajima (2004) Kyoko Fukada (2005) Yūko Tanaka (2006) Miki Nakatani (2007) Kumiko Asō (2008) Eiko Koike (2009)
2010s	Manami Konishi and Haruka Ayase (2010) Shinobu Terajima (2011) Tomoko Tabata (2012) Harue Akagi (2013) Sakura Ando (2014) Haruka Ayase (2015) Mariko Tsutsui (2016) Masami Nagasawa (2017) Sakura Ando (2018) Shim Eun-kyung (2019)
2020s	Asami Mizukawa (2020) Machiko Ono (2021) Yukino Kishii (2022) Hana Sugisaki (2023)

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