Awashima Chikage

[Maria Jose Gonzalez]

One of the great postwar actresses.
Her performance in Meoto-Zenzai was simply brilliant.
Yes,her brother Yusuke Steve Nakagawa was an animator and worked with Willie Ito (Disney-Hanna Barbera).
Nakagawa worked for Rankin/Bass,the American production company although most of  the work was done in Japan at Toei Animation.
Ribon No Kishi comes as no surprise since Tezuka was much inspired by the Takarazuka Revue:
http://tezukainenglish.com/bm/analysis/analysis-essays/tezuka-and-takurazuka-theater-a-brief-introduction.shtml



Maria-Jose Gonzalez



From: Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
Sent: Thursday, 16 February 2012, 22:54
Subject: Awashima Chikage
 

The news reports say that the great actress Awashima Chikage passed away. Not that well known abroad because she often did comedy (though she was great at serious roles as well), she was a force to be missed.

Here's a news report in Japanese:

http://www.47news.jp/CN/201202/CN2012021601000990.html

Here's my report:

http://www.aarongerow.com/news/awashima-chikage.html

The Japanese Wikipedia article contains a bunch of interesting trivia, such as that Awashima was the model for Tezuka Osamu's Ribon no kishi, or that her younger brother was a Hanna Barbera animator, but I'll wait to see extra proof of that.


Aaron Gerow
Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program
Yale University
320 York Street, Room 311
PO Box 208236
New Haven, CT 06520-8236
USA
Phone: 1-203-432-7082
Fax: 1-203-432-6729
e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
website: www.aarongerow.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/kinejapan/attachments/20120216/a2281938/attachment.html