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 .
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Movies (42)
The Ozu Diaries
as Self
2025
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
as Self
2022
Shimamori Tower
2022
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022
Mo-Ruerani
as Fukiko
2021
Omotenashi
as Shimizu-sensei
2018
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
as Reiko Ashitaka
2017
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actress
2016
Somewhere in Kamakura
2016
Beautiful 2016
2016
東京の日
as Michiko
2015
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
as Self
2015
The Intermission
2013
Tokyo Rendezvous
as Fujiko Natsumi
2008
Red Whale, White Snake
2006
Bluestockings
2005
Heaven's Bookstore
as Sachi Hiyama
2004
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
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
as Self
2002
Kokoro no Koukyougaku
as (Voice)
2002
After Life
as Kyoko Watanabe
1999
Shall We Dance?
as Keiko Kishikawa
1996
Deep River
as Isobe's wife
1995
Madadayo
as Professor's Wife
1993
Shikibu monogatari
as Isa Otomo
1990
Song of the Spring Pony
1985
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as Keiko
1979
Have Wings on Your Heart
1978
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
The Family
as Ichiko Mima
1974
Red Beard
as Madwoman ("The Mantis")
1965
High and Low
as Reiko Gondo
1963
The Daughters of the Saotome Family
1962
Love at the Fogged Harbor
1962
As Long as There's Tomorrow
as Natsuko
1962
Girls of the Night
as Mrs. Shima
1961
Mothra
as Michi Hanamura
1961
Death on the Mountain
as Masako Iwase
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
as Ai
1961
Scars of Honor
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
as Yoshiko Nishi
1960
