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Kyōko Kagawa

Acting Born Dec 5, 1931 Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan 24 credits

Biography

Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子 Kagawa Kyōko, born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff.

She won the "New Face Nomination" sponsored by the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper out of about 6,000 applicants and joined Shintoho. She was also taking entrance exams for a regular company at the same time, and her final interview and the final exam for the New Faces camera test overlapped, but with her mother's advice, she decided to pursue acting.

After appearing in Red Beard in 1965 , she gave birth to a child and accompanied her husband to New York where he was posted overseas, leaving the film industry for about three years.

She returned to Japan in 1968. As film began to decline, she expanded her field of work to include television dramas and stage productions. She was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1998 and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette in 2004 .

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Known for

Film

High and Low

as Reiko Gondo
Film

Tokyo Story

as Kyoko Hirayama

Imo Tako Nankin

as 花岡和代
Film

Red Beard

as Madwoman ("The Mantis")

Futarikko

1996
Film

After Life

as Kyoko Watanabe
Film

Mothra

as Michi Hanamura
Film

Sansho the Bailiff

as Anju

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs

as Professor's Wife
Film

The Bad Sleep Well

as Yoshiko Nishi

Full filmography

  • High and Low (1963) as Reiko Gondo
  • Life of a Flower (1963) as Akiyama Shizu
  • The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) as Self
  • Mizuiro no toki (1975) as 知子の母・松宮房子
  • Tokyo Story (1953) as Kyoko Hirayama
  • Imo Tako Nankin (2006) as 花岡和代
  • Red Beard (1965) as Madwoman ("The Mantis")
  • Kura (1995)
  • Futarikko (1996)
  • After Life (1999) as Kyoko Watanabe
  • Mothra (1961) as Michi Hanamura
  • Silent Poor (2014) as Fusae Eda
  • Sansho the Bailiff (1954) as Anju
  • Madadayo (1993) as Professor's Wife
  • The Bad Sleep Well (1960) as Yoshiko Nishi
  • Shall We Dance? (1996) as Keiko Kishikawa
  • The Lower Depths (1957) as Okayo, Osugi's Sister
  • Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) as Osan
  • The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (2022)
  • The Three Treasures (1959) as Princess Miyazu
  • The Tale of Genji (1991)
  • Daredevil in the Castle (1961) as Ai
  • Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957) as Oki
  • Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016) as Self - Actress