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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 .
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 .
Known For
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 | Letter from the Mountain · as Cast |
| 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 | Tora-san's Dream of Spring · as Keiko |
| 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 | Daredevil in the Castle · as Ai |
| 1960 | The Bad Sleep Well · as Yoshiko Nishi |
| 1959 | The Three Treasures · as Princess Miyazu |
| 1959 | |
| 1958 | Little Peach · as Anzukko |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 | Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken · as Oki |
| 1957 | Onna goroshi abura jigoku · as Sister |
| 1957 | The Lower Depths · as Okayo, Osugi's Sister |
| 1957 | Yagyû bugeichô · as Oki |
| 1957 | An Osaka Story · as Onatsu |
| 1956 | A Cat and Two Women · as Fukuko |
| 1956 | Sudden Rain · as Ayako (fumiko's Niece) |
| 1956 | Shin heike monogatari-shizuka to yoshitsune · as Yurino |
| 1955 | The Shiinomi School · as Kayoko Atsumi |
| 1954 | A Story from Chikamatsu · as Osan |
| 1954 | Sansho the Bailiff · as Anju |
| 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 |