Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 05, 1931
Place of Birth
Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan
Credits
119 titles
Kyōko Kagawa
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 .
Known For
Filmography
The Ozu Diaries
Self
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
Self
Shimamori Tower
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Mo-Ruerani
Fukiko
Omotenashi
Shimizu-sensei
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
Reiko Ashitaka
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Self - Actress
Somewhere in Kamakura
Beautiful 2016
Tokyo Day
Michiko
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
Self
Silent Poor
Fusae Eda
The Intermission
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
Tokyo Rendezvous
Fujiko Natsumi
Red Whale, White Snake
Imo Tako Nankin
花岡和代
Bluestockings
Heaven's Bookstore
Sachi Hiyama
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
Self
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'
Self
Kokoro no Koukyougaku
(Voice)
明るいほうへ 明るいほうへ -童謡詩人 金子みすゞ-
After Life
Kyoko Watanabe
Futarikko
Shall We Dance?
Keiko Kishikawa
Kura
Deep River
Isobe's wife
Madadayo
Professor's Wife
The Tale of Genji
Shikibu monogatari
Isa Otomo
Song of the Spring Pony
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Keiko
Have Wings on Your Heart
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Self
Mizuiro no toki
知子の母・松宮房子
The Family
Ichiko Mima
Red Beard
Madwoman ("The Mantis")
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
The Prodigal Son
His Sister
Life of a Flower
Akiyama Shizu
High and Low
Reiko Gondo
The Daughters of the Saotome Family
Love at the Fogged Harbor
Till Tomorrow Is
Natsuko
Girls of the Night
Mrs. Shima
Mothra
Michi Hanamura