Name
Kyōko Kagawa
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1931-12-05 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan
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
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The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside vi...
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In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and ...
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In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high posi...
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On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social servic...
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When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair w...
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In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspe...
- 1952 Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- 1965 Red Beard as Madwoman ("The Mantis")
- 1954 Sansho the Bailiff as Anju
- 1960 The Bad Sleep Well as Yoshiko Nishi
- 1957 The Lower Depths as Okayo, Osugi's Sister
- 1963 High and Low as Reiko Gondo
- 1993 Madadayo as Professor's Wife
- 1952 Mother as Toshiko Fukuhara
- 1954 Chikamatsu Monogatari as Osan
- 1962 Till Tomorrow Is as Natsuko
- 1950 Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog as O-Rie
- 1999 After Life as Kyoko Watanabe
- 1961 Mothra as Michi Hanamura
- 1953 Tokyo Story as Kyoko Hirayama
- 1958 The Outsiders as Yukiko Saeki
- 1957 Yagyu Secret Scrolls as Oki
- 1958 Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Oki
- 1956 Sudden Rain as Ayako (Fumiko's niece)
- 2008 Tokyo Rendezvous as Fujiko Natsumi
- 1979 Tora-san's Dream of Spring as Keiko
- 1956 Shozo, a Cat and Two Women as Fukuko
- 1961 Daredevil in the Castle as Ai
- 1958 Little Peach as Anzukko
- 1955 The Shiinomi School as Kayoko Atsumi
- 1953 Tower of Lilies as Fumi Uehara
- 1957 An Osaka Story as Onatsu
- 1954 Hanran
- 1953 Love Letter as Yasuko
- 1952 Man in the Storm as Tomi Tsuboi
- 1954 Five Sisters
- 1957 A Man in the Storm as Akiko
- 1956 流轉 as お秋
- 1962 The Daughters of the Saotome Family
- 2015 Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki as Self
- 1985 Song of the Spring Pony
- 1952 Lightning as Tsubomi
- 2022 Shimamori Tower
- 1960 The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
- 1951 Ginza Cosmetics as Kyôko
- 1974 The Family as Ichiko Mima
- 2015 Tokyo Day as Michiko
- 2006 Red Whale, White Snake
- 1978 Have Wings on Your Heart
- 1954 Mother's First Love
- 1951 Akatsuki no Kyūshū as Yukie Murata
- 1952 Lil's Return from Shanghai as Lil Takemoto / Katsuko Suzuki
- 1958 Woman Unveiled
- 1958 His Scarlet Cloak
- 2016 Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actress
- 1959 The Human Wall as Fumiko
- 1952 Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
- 1955 Nonki saiban
- 1955 Christ in Bronze as Mónica
- 1957 On This Earth as Fuyuko
- 1955 If Indeed One Loves as Kuniko (segment 2)
- 1952 Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete as Mitsuko Kawai
- 1961 Death on the Mountain as Masako Iwase
- 1962 Love at the Fogged Harbor
- 1975 Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director as Self
- 2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' as Self
- 2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' as Self
- 1959 Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
- 2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' as Self
- 1960 Scars of Honor
- 1959 The Three Treasures as Princess Miyazu
- 1950 Snow-Flake as Itakura's sister
- 1959 Gambler and the Princess as Princess Kiku
- 1952 A Ripple in a Morning as Sister
- 1961 Girls of the Night as Mrs. Shima
- 2018 Omotenashi as Shimizu-sensei
- 2017 Tenshi no Iru Toshokan as Reiko Ashitaka
- 2004 Heaven's Bookstore as Sachi Hiyama
- 2021 Mo-Ruerani as Fukiko
- 1990 Shikibu monogatari as Isa Otomo
- 1956 Women in Prison as Taeko Hara, prisoner
- 1953 Aiyoku no sabaki as Fujikawa Motoko
- 2005 Bluestockings
- 1996 Shall We Dance? as Keiko Kishikawa
- 1951 Karate Sanshiro
- 1995 Deep River as Isobe's wife
- 1960 Lord of Red Banner
- 2013 The Intermission
- 1951 Farewell to the Highland Station as Yuki
- 1951 Who Knows a Woman's Heart
- 1954 Tomoshibi
- 1956 Rainy Night Duel as Shizue Amaji
- 2002 Kokoro no Koukyougaku as (Voice)
- 1958 The Child Writers as Fumio's Teacher
- 1954 The Glorious Days
- 2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
- 1956 Girl's Reform School
- 1950 Mado Kara Tobidase as Mariko Fujieda
- 2016 Somewhere in Kamakura
- 1956 Morishige, where are you going? as Megumi Mori
- 1952 Kantarou zukiyo-uta
- 1957 The Shadow Daughter as Fusako
- 1958 Kampai! Miai Kekkon as Emiko Toda
- 2025 The Ozu Diaries as Self
- 2016 Beautiful 2016
- 1957 The Oil-Hell Murder
- 2022 Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About as Self
- 1958 Holiday in Tokyo
- 1956 The Wife is a University Student as Keiko Hiyoshi (Student Wife)
- 1956 A Strong Wind Blows as Takako Hiyoshi
- 1964 Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- 1959 The Canary Cage, Spellbound Love
- 1964 The Prodigal Son as His Sister
- 1952 August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan as Kimiko Sasaki
- 1953 Moth Lamp
- 2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard' as Self
- 2001 明るいほうへ 明るいほうへ -童謡詩人 金子みすゞ-
- 1952 Daigaku no kotengu
- 1955 Love at Forty
- 1959 The Bell of Love
- 1958 I Am Three People
- 1960 My Friend Death
- 1954 Tekka bugyō
- 1963 Life of a Flower ( 39 episodes ) as Akiyama Shizu
- 2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2006 Imo Tako Nankin ( 151 episodes ) as 花岡和代
- 1975 Mizuiro no toki ( 156 episodes ) as 知子の母・松宮房子
- 2014 Silent Poor ( 9 episodes ) as Fusae Eda
- 1996 Futarikko ( 150 episodes )
- 1995 Kura ( 6 episodes )
- 1991 The Tale of Genji ( 2 episodes )
