Chikage Awashima
Born Keiko Nakagawa, 24 February 192416 February 2012 was a Japanese film and stage actress.
Also recorded as Awashima Chikage
Chikage Awashima

産業経済新聞社(Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd.) · 『サンケイグラフ』1954年10月3日号、産業経済新聞社 ”The Sankei Graphic”, Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd. 1954. · Public domain
- Birth Name
- Keiko Nakagawa
- Born
- 24 February 1924
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- 16 February 2012
- Occupation
- Actress
- Full name
- Keiko Nakagawa.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Fields
- acting.
- Honours
- Kikuchi Kan Prize, Medal with Purple Ribbon, Kinuyo Tanaka Award, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress, Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō and Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Born Keiko Nakagawa, 24 February 192416 February 2012 was a Japanese film and stage actress.
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• Birth Name — Keiko Nakagawa • Born — 24 February 1924 • Birthplace — Tokyo, Japan • Died — 16 February 2012 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Years Active — 1939–2011 • Occupation — Actress
Life
Life
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 twice the Blue Ribbon Award and twice the Mainichi Film Award for her performances. Awashima retired from the stage in 2009. On 16 February 2012, eight days before her 88th birthday, she died from pancreatic cancer.
Television
Television
• 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
Film
• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1950 — Ten'ya wan'ya — Minoru Shibuya — Screen debut • 1951 — The Good Fairy — Itsuko Kitaura — Keisuke Kinoshita • 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 • 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
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Honours
• 1950: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress for Ten'ya wan'ya and Okusama ni goyojin • 1955: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress for Marital Relations • 1958: Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress for Summer Clouds and Hotarubi • 1988: Medal with Purple Ribbon • 1995: Order of the Precious Crown, 4th Class, Wisteria • 1997: Mainichi Film Awards Kinuyo Tanaka Award

Chikage Awashima, Akira Ishihama and Shin Saburi in Nami (波) directed by Noboru Nakamura, 1952
Shōchiku

Chikage Awashima, Shin Saburi, Kōji Shitara and Keiko Tsushima in Nami (波) directed by Noboru Nakamura, 1952
Shōchiku
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- 1.淡島千景. kotobank.jp.
- 2.女優の淡島千景さん死去 「夫婦善哉」「駅前」で活躍. 47news.jp horodatage.
- 3.Filmographie. JMDb.
- 4.第1回 ブルーリボン賞.
- 5.1950年 第1回 ブルーリボン賞. www.allcinema.net.
- 6.1955年 第6回 ブルーリボン賞. www.allcinema.net.
- 7.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (1958年). mainichi.jp.
- 8.Liste des récipiendaires du prix Kinuyo Tanaka sur le site du musée Kinuyo Tanaka Bunkakan
- 9.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (1997年). mainichi.jp.
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