Kyōko Kagawa
Actor
- Born
- December 5, 1931 (age 94) · Aso [now Namegata], Ibaraki, Japan
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.
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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
Tokyo Story
November 3, 1953
High and Low
March 1, 1963
Sansho the Bailiff
March 31, 1954
Red Beard
March 4, 1965
The Bad Sleep Well
September 19, 1960
After Life
April 17, 1999
Mothra
July 30, 1961
Shall We Dance?
January 27, 1996
Chikamatsu Monogatari
November 23, 1954
The Lower Depths
October 1, 1957
Madadayo
April 17, 1993
Mifune: The Last Samurai
December 2, 2016
Acting124
- 2025The Ozu Diaries as Self
- 2022Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About as Self
- 2022Shimamori Tower
- 2022The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
- 2021Mo-Ruerani as Fukiko
- 2018Omotenashi as Shimizu-sensei
- 2017Tenshi no Iru Toshokan as Reiko Ashitaka
- 2016Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actress
- 2016Somewhere in Kamakura
- 2016Beautiful 2016
- 2015