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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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17 December 1957
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer.
Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
13 June 1963
Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.
01 October 1952
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
15 June 1954
A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires.
25 December 1959
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles).
18 March 1958
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi.
03 April 1952
Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.
18 November 1967
The 21st film in the Ekimae series, commemorating the 35th anniversary of Toho. The film is a loose remake of the first film in the series, Ekimae Ryoukan.
01 July 1962
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
14 June 1964
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother.
15 January 1959
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service.
11 September 1960
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the temple Honnoji.
29 October 1983
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this).
01 October 1956
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue.
22 April 1953
1953 Japanese movie
16 May 1965
Driven by greed and a desire for his cousin's wife, Jiro orchestrates a complex frame-up to have his cousin arrested for murder.
03 October 1951
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28.
24 December 1961
A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.
23 November 1962
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
19 November 2005
A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.
14 October 1953
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony.
09 January 1961
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years.
01 October 1958
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism.
07 December 1951
Inochi uruwashi
31 October 1964
The 10th "Ekimae" feature.
15 May 1960
Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of the two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his final days.
04 September 1961
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
28 November 1956
1956 Daiei movie
01 April 1952
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested.
29 January 1956
A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.
04 July 1965
The 12th "Ekimae" feature.
10 October 1986
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
29 September 1957
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu.
13 August 1961
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings.
16 June 1963
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men.
02 June 1959
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there.
23 December 1962
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.
10 April 1963
Ensemble comedy.
24 March 1954
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.
19 July 1957
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful.
Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
21 January 1962
1962 Japanese movie
05 March 1957
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
01 July 1958
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions.
Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
29 April 1962
1962 Japanese movie
15 January 1963
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company.
30 May 1961
The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents.
27 January 1959
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
31 October 1965
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls.
09 January 1958
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
07 February 1961
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan.
23 November 1962
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family.
23 November 1953
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.
01 December 1953
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
16 September 1961
Japanese comedy film.
15 January 1965
The 11th "Ekimae" feature.
15 September 1953
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945.
