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Kyôko Kishida

Profession
Acting
Born
April 29, 1930 · Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Died
December 17, 2006

Biography

Kyōko Kishida (April 29, 1930 – December 17, 2006) was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and writer of children's books. Her father was Kunio Kishida, a playwright and the founder of the Bungaku-za. She became an actress in 1950, and starred in a Yukio Mishima production of Salome (1960). Her film and television drama credits number in the hundreds. Among them are four Taiga drama series on NHK television, with roles such as Aguri (the wife of Asano Naganori and Yodo-Dono (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). She appeared in various roles, including acting and narrating, in various Ōoku series on television. In the series Gokenin Zankurō, she portrayed the mother of the title character (played by Ken Watanabe), and narrated a Lone Wolf and Cub television series. Kishida's film credits include Yasujirō Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), The Broken Commandment (based on a novel by Shimazaki Toson), Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Woman in the Dunes (1964) and The Face of Another (1966) (both from novels by Kōbō Abe), Kon Ichikawa's The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (1987), based on the classic story, Heaven and Earth (1990), and Spring Snow, the 2005 Isao Yukisada adaptation of the Mishima novel. Anime fans know Kishida as the voice of Moomin in the original 1960s television series. She provided narration for Vampire Princess Miyu and Princess Tutu as well as the 2005 Book of the Dead. In addition, she dubbed roles for Columbo and Miss Marple, and narrated Prophecies of Nostradamus. Kishida appeared in commercials for Nestle, TDK, and Asahi Shimbun. Kyōko Kishida died on December 17, 2006 in Tokyo from respiratory failure caused by a brain tumor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyōko Kishida, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Woman in the Dunes poster
Woman in the Dunes
Film · 1964 · ★ 8.2
An Autumn Afternoon poster
An Autumn Afternoon
Film · 1962 · ★ 7.9
The Face of Another poster
The Face of Another
Film · 1966 · ★ 7.8
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer poster
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Film · 1961 · ★ 8.4
A Thousand and One Nights poster
A Thousand and One Nights
Film · 1969 · ★ 6.7
Manji poster
Manji
Film · 1964 · ★ 6.5
The Inugami Family poster
The Inugami Family
Film · 1976 · ★ 6.8
Princess Tutu poster
Princess Tutu
Series · 2002 · ★ 8.2
Rikyu poster
Rikyu
Film · 1989 · ★ 7.5
Ninja, A Band of Assassins poster
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Film · 1962 · ★ 6.4
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai poster
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Film · 1963 · ★ 6.7
Love poster
Love
Film · 1964 · ★ 5.2

Filmography