Kyōko Kagawa
Actor
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 .
Filmography
High and Low
as Reiko Gondo 1963
Sansho the Bailiff
as Anju 1954
Red Beard
as Madwoman ("The Mantis") 1965
The Bad Sleep Well
as Yoshiko Nishi 1960
After Life
as Kyoko Watanabe 1999
Mothra
as Michi Hanamura 1961
Shall We Dance?
as Keiko Kishikawa 1996
Chikamatsu Monogatari
as Osan 1954
The Lower Depths
as Okayo, Osugi's Sister 1957
Madadayo
as Professor's Wife 1993
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actress 2016
Love Letter
as Yasuko 1953
Lightning
as Tsubomi 1952
Mother
as Toshiko Fukuhara 1952
Girls of the Night
as Mrs. Shima 1961
Sudden Rain
as Ayako (Fumiko's niece) 1956