Kyōko Kagawa
- Acting
- December 5, 1931 · Aso [now Namegata], Ibaraki, 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
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
- 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: 'The Lower Depths' · Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' · Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' · Self
- Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard' · 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 · 圭子
- 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
- Death on the Mountain · Masako Iwase
- Daredevil in the Castle · Ai
- Scars of Honor
- The Bad Sleep Well · Yoshiko Nishi
- My Friend Death
- Lord of Red Banner
- The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
- The Three Treasures · Princess Miyazu
- Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
- The Human Wall · Fumiko
- The Bell of Love
- The Canary Cage, Spellbound Love
- Gambler and the Princess · Princess Kiku
- The Footmark of a Snow Fairy
- The Outsiders · Yukiko Saeki
- I Am Three People
- His Scarlet Cloak
- The Child Writers · Fumio's Teacher
- Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō
- Little Peach · Anzukko
- Holiday in Tokyo
- Woman Unveiled
- Kampai! Miai Kekkon · Emiko Toda
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II · Oki
- On This Earth · Fuyuko
- The Oil-Hell Murder
- The Lower Depths · Okayo, Osugi's Sister
- The Shadow Daughter · Fusako
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls · Oki
- An Osaka Story · Onatsu