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Kyōko Kagawa

ActorBorn December 5, 1931 (93 years)
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 .

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Tokyo Story
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • A Story from Chikamatsu

Known For

  • High and Low
  • Tokyo Story
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • Red Beard
  • Madadayo
  • The Bad Sleep Well
  • A Story from Chikamatsu
  • After Life
  • The Lower Depths
  • Mothra
  • Mother
  • Lightning
  • Little Peach
  • Sudden Rain
  • Girl of Dark
  • Ginza Cosmetics
  • Daredevil in the Castle
  • Tokyo Rendezvous
  • A Cat and Two Women
  • The Three Treasures
  • Letter from the Mountain
  • Ballad
  • The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
  • Yagyû bugeichô

Filmography

2022
2020
2019
Swindle Detective (TV Series) · as Shinobu Imamiya
2018
In This Corner of the World (TV Series) · as Setsuko Hojo
2018
Omotenashi · as Shimizu-Sensei
2017
Library with Angels · as Reiko Ashitaka
2015
Tokyo no hi · as Michiko
2009
Ballad · as Cast
2008
Tokyo Rendezvous · as Fujiko Natsumi
2006
Imo Tako Nankin (TV Series) · as 花岡和代
2004
Heaven's Bookstore · as Sachi Hiyama
2002
1998
After Life · as Kyoko Watanabe
1996
Twin Sisters (TV Series)
1996
Shall We Dance? · as Keiko Kishikawa
1995
Deep River · as Isobe's Wife
1993
Madadayo · as Professor's Wife
1989
Kasuga the Court Lady (TV Series) · as Cast
1979
1975
1974
The Family · as Ichiko Mima
1965
Red Beard · as Madwoman ("the Mantis")
1963
High and Low · as Reiko Gondo
1962
1961
Girl of Dark · as Mrs. Shima
1961
Mothra · as Michi Hanamura
1961
Death on the Mountain · as Masako Iwase
1961
1960
The Bad Sleep Well · as Yoshiko Nishi
1959
The Three Treasures · as Princess Miyazu
1959
1958
Little Peach · as Anzukko
1958
1958
1957
1957
The Lower Depths · as Okayo, Osugi's Sister
1957
1957
An Osaka Story · as Onatsu
1956
A Cat and Two Women · as Fukuko
1956
Sudden Rain · as Ayako (fumiko's Niece)
1956
1955
The Shiinomi School · as Kayoko Atsumi
1954
1954
1953
Love Letter · as Yasuko
1953
Tokyo Story · as Kyoko Hirayama
1953
Himeyuri no tô · as Fumi Uehara
1952
Lightning · as Tsubomi
1952
Mother · as Toshiko Fukuhara
1951
Ginza Cosmetics · as Kyôko

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