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 .
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1931-12-05
Place of birth
Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan
Images
Cast
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
0.00
Red Beard
1965
8.12
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
8.10
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
7.70
The Lower Depths
1957
7.06
High and Low
1963
8.35
Madadayo
1993
7.30
Mother
1952
6.80
The Crucified Lovers
1954
7.80
Till Tomorow Comes
1962
0.00
After Life
1999
7.20
Mothra
1961
7.10
Tokyo Story
1953
8.17
The Outsiders
1958
0.00
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
7.00
The Tale of Genji
1991
0.00
Sudden Rain
1956
6.50
Tokyo Rendezvous
2008
5.40
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
8.00
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956
6.70
Daredevil in the Castle
1961
7.40
Little Peach
1958
5.93
The Shiinomi School
1955
6.50
An Osaka Story
1957
5.40
Tower of Lilies
1953
6.80
Hanran
1954
0.00
Love Letter
1953
6.77
Man in the Storm
1952
0.00
Five Sisters
1954
7.67
A Man in the Storm
1957
0.00
流轉
1956
0.00
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
1962
0.00
Song of the Spring Pony
1985
7.00
Lightning
1952
7.14
Shimamori Tower
2022
7.30
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
6.09
The Family
1974
10.00
東京の日
2015
0.00
Red Whale, White Snake
2006
0.00
Have Wings on Your Heart
1978
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Mother's First Love
1954
0.00
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
1951
0.00
Lil's Return from Shanghai
1952
7.00
Woman Unveiled
1958
6.00
His Scarlet Cloak
1958
0.00
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
7.10
The Human Wall
1959
5.00
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
1952
0.00
Nonki saiban
1955
0.00
Christ in Bronze
1955
0.00
On This Earth
1957
0.00
Ai Sureba Koso
1955
0.00
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
0.00
Death on the Mountain
1961
6.50
Love at the Fogged Harbor
1962
0.00
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
1959
7.50
Scars of Honor
1960
6.00
The Three Treasures
1959
5.40
Snow-Flake
1950
8.00
Gambler and the Princess
1959
0.00
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
6.00
Girls of the Night
1961
6.80
Omotenashi
2018
4.70
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
2017
0.00
Heaven's Bookstore
2004
5.30
Mo-Ruerani
2021
0.00
Shikibu monogatari
1990
1.00
Women in Prison
1956
1.00
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953
0.00
Bluestockings
2005
6.00
Shall We Dance?
1996
7.32
Karate Sanshiro
1951
0.00
Deep River
1995
7.20
Lord of Red Banner
1960
0.00
The Intermission
2013
7.00
Farewell to the Highland Station
1951
0.00
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1951
0.00
Tomoshibi
1954
0.00
Rainy Night Duel
1956
0.00
Kokoro no Koukyougaku
2002
0.00
The Child Writers
1958
0.00
The Glorious Days
1954
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Girl's Reform School
1956
0.00
Mado Kara Tobidase
1950
0.00
Somewhere in Kamakura
2016
0.00
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
0.00
勘太郎月夜唄
1952
0.00
The Shadow Daughter
1957
0.00
Kampai! Miai Kekkon
1958
0.00
The Ozu Diaries
0.00
Beautiful 2016
2016
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