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 .

Filmografi

High and Low1963 · Reiko GondoRed Beard1965 · Madwoman ("The Mantis")Tokyo Story1953 · Kyoko HirayamaSansho the Bailiff1954 · AnjuLove Letter1953 · YasukoAfter Life1999 · Kyoko WatanabeThe Bad Sleep Well1960 · Yoshiko NishiShall We Dance?1996 · Keiko KishikawaMothra1961 · Michi HanamuraZenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō1958 · I Am Three People1958 · The Footmark of a Snow Fairy1958 · Chakkari fujin to ukkari fujin1952 · Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II1958 · OkiKenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director1975 · SelfMy Friend Death1960 · Daigaku no kotengu1952 · The Bell of Love1959 · An Osaka Story1957 · OnatsuMadadayo1993 · Professor's WifeKokoro no Koukyougaku2002 · (Voice)Tekka bugyō1954 · Who Knows a Woman's Heart1951 · Women in Prison1956 · Taeko Hara, prisoner