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Tag Archives: Chikage Awashima
What Is Your Name? Part II AKA Kimi no na wa: Dainibu (1953) Hideo Ôba, Keiko Awaji, Chikage Awashima, Kimie Hayashi
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge Read More »
What Is Your Name? AKA Kimi no na wa (1953) Hideo Ôba, Keiko Awaji, Chikage Awashima, Haruyo Ichikawa
Machiko and Haruki are not allowed to meet. When at last they find each other, Haruki has to part for Europe. Read More »
An Actor’s Revenge AKA Yukinojo Henge (1959) Masahiro Makino, Hashizo Okawa, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Okawa
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo’s kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata Read More »
The Wayside Pebble AKA Robô no ishi (1964) Miyoji Ieki, Chikage Awashima, Shûichi Ikeda, Katsuo Nakamura
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque Read More »
Early Summer AKA Bakushû (1951) Yasujirô Ozu, Setsuko Hara, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima
In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko Read More »
Yellow Crow AKA Kiiroi karasu (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
A young boy has formed an idealized image of his father, who has yet to be repatriated from Russia. Read More »
Summer Clouds (1958) Mikio Naruse, Chikage Awashima, Michiyo Aratama, Kumi Mizuno
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. Read More »
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima
In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko to the tiny Manchurian village Loh Hu Liong Read More »
The Master Spearman (1960) Tomu Uchida, Chikage Awashima, Hiromi Hanazono, Kensaku Hara, Drama
Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri Read More »
Tsuma to shite onna to shite / As a Wife, As a Woman (1961) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Chikage Awashima, Masayuki Mori, Drama
The children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother. Read More »
Meoto zenzai / Marital Relations (1955) Shirô Toyoda, Hisaya Morishige, Chikage Awashima, Yôko Tsukasa, Drama
Ryukichi, the young master of a cosmetic wholesale dealer, leaves his wife and child to live with Choko, a popular geisha, with whom he has fallen in love. Read More »
Kono ko wo nokoshite / Children of Nagasaki (1983) Keisuke Kinoshita, Gô Katô, Yukiyo Toake, Chikage Awashima, Drama, War
In Nagasaki, Japan, on 09 August 1945, at 11:02 AM, 80.000 dead and thousand of persons wounded or contaminated by radiation were victims of one of the most hideous crimes of the mankind history. This low-budget movie is a dramatization of this deplorable event, based on the report of one of the survivors of the ‘day after’ of Nagasaki.
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Runway to Hell (1960) Masahiro Makino, Harue Akagi, Koji Arima, Chikage Awashima, Action, Drama
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.
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Early Spring / Sôshun (1956) Yasujirô Ozu, Chikage Awashima, Ryô Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi, Drama
A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.
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