Kyôko Kishida
Biography
Kyōko Kishida (April 29, 1930 – December 17, 2006) was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and writer of children's books.
Her father was Kunio Kishida, a playwright and the founder of the Bungaku-za. She became an actress in 1950, and starred in a Yukio Mishima production of Salome (1960). Her film and television drama credits number in the hundreds. Among them are four Taiga drama series on NHK television, with roles such as Aguri (the wife of Asano Naganori and Yodo-Dono (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). She appeared in various roles, including acting and narrating, in various Ōoku series on television. In the series Gokenin Zankurō, she portrayed the mother of the title character (played by Ken Watanabe), and narrated a Lone Wolf and Cub television series.
Kishida's film credits include Yasujirō Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), The Broken Commandment (based on a novel by Shimazaki Toson), Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Woman in the Dunes (1964) and The Face of Another (1966) (both from novels by Kōbō Abe), Kon Ichikawa's The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (1987), based on the classic story, Heaven and Earth (1990), and Spring Snow, the 2005 Isao Yukisada adaptation of the Mishima novel.
Anime fans know Kishida as the voice of Moomin in the original 1960s television series. She provided narration for Vampire Princess Miyu and Princess Tutu as well as the 2005 Book of the Dead. In addition, she dubbed roles for Columbo and Miss Marple, and narrated Prophecies of Nostradamus. Kishida appeared in commercials for Nestle, TDK, and Asahi Shimbun.
Kyōko Kishida died on December 17, 2006 in Tokyo from respiratory failure caused by a brain tumor.
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Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1930-04-29
Place of birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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Cast
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962
6.23
The Book of the Dead
2005
6.20
Spring Snow
2005
4.00
Heaven and Earth
1990
6.20
The Face of Another
1966
7.80
Rikyu
1989
7.47
Wool 100%
2006
5.90
Woman in the Dunes
1964
8.20
Dark hunter
1994
0.00
To Love
1997
5.50
Manji
1964
6.30
Utamaro's World
1977
5.00
Spring Bell
1985
6.00
Nichiren
1979
0.00
Curse of the Dog God
1977
6.10
Her Brother
1960
6.90
The Broken Commandment
1962
6.60
Chloe
2001
6.00
The Shogun's Vault I
1981
0.00
Conquest
1965
5.00
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
1985
0.00
Tracing Jake
2004
7.00
The Inferno
1979
6.60
Vengeance for Sale
2002
6.40
Homicide
1964
0.00
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
6.10
Journey Into Solitude
1972
6.50
Where did Sharaku go?
1968
0.00
Sapporo Winter Olympics
1972
6.70
A Thousand and One Nights
1969
6.69
The School of Flesh
1965
4.70
Dora-heita
2000
5.10
Zodiac Killers
1991
4.20
Under the Same Moon
2005
4.00
The Sea and Poison
1986
6.90
The 8-Tomb Village
1996
5.70
Sure Death 4
1987
6.60
A Flame at the Pier
1962
6.00
Rennyo and His Mother
1981
0.00
Detective Story
1983
6.20
Vixen
1969
6.40
Love and Greed
1964
7.00
Flame of Father and Son
1981
0.00
The Time of Reckoning
1968
7.00
The Twilight Story
1960
8.00
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
0.00
Ten Dark Women
1961
5.50
World Famous Fairy Tale Series
1975
7.00
Let's Gotokuji
1987
0.00
Mothers
1967
6.40
Being Two Isn't Easy
1962
6.80
Haunted School 2
1996
7.50
Brand of Evil
1964
7.50
Hello, Baby
1964
10.00
Lullaby of Death
1982
5.00
The Inugami Family
1976
6.90
Love at the Fogged Harbor
1962
0.00
I Lived, But...
1983
6.50
Seito shokun!
1984
0.00
The Harbor Lights
1961
5.00
The Days of Evil Women
1958
0.00
Get 'em All
1960
6.00
Challenge to Live
1961
0.00
Five Ronins
1963
0.00
The Shogun and His Mistresses
1967
2.00
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
0.00
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
1.00
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
7.86
Toward the Terra
1980
6.10
The Lowest Man
1958
0.00
Fusa
1995
5.80
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1977
8.80
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
1962
0.00
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
0.00
Crane
1988
6.80
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
6.00
Noh Mask Murders
1991
5.60
Actress
1987
7.00
Winter Days
2003
5.90
Sugata Sanshiro
1977
0.00
A Woman Called En
1971
0.00
Love
1964
4.90
Human Zoo
1962
3.00
Temptation on Glamour Island
1959
6.00
Tokyo Bordello
1987
5.00
Shinsengumi
2000
0.00
Warm Current
1966
0.00
The Hall of the Crying Deer
1986
0.00
Yaneura no Onna-tachi
1956
0.00
Fujiko Fujio's Dream Camera
1986
6.00
六人の女を殺した男
1965
0.00
At the Side of the Bridge 3
1963
0.00
Gomez's Name is Gomez
1967
0.00
Princess from the Moon
1987
6.30
Misandry
1964
0.00
Thumbelina
1978
6.00
Yurakucho 0 Street
1958
0.00
江戸むらさき特急
0.00