Kyōko Kagawa
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 .
Acting
Movie
Tokyo Story
as Kyoko Hirayama
1953
Movie
High and Low
as Reiko Gondo
1963
Movie
Sansho the Bailiff
as Anju
1954
Movie
Red Beard
as Madwoman ("The Mantis")
1965
Movie
The Bad Sleep Well
as Yoshiko Nishi
1960
Movie
After Life
as Kyoko Watanabe
1999
Movie
Mothra
as Michi Hanamura
1961
Movie
Shall We Dance?
as Keiko Kishikawa
1996
Movie
Chikamatsu Monogatari
as Osan
1954
Movie
The Lower Depths
as Okayo, Osugi's Sister
1957
Movie
Madadayo
as Professor's Wife
1993
TV
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
2011
Movie
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actress
2016
Movie
Love Letter
as Yasuko
1953
Movie
Lightning
as Tsubomi
1952
Movie
Girls of the Night
as Mrs. Shima
1961
Movie
Mother
as Toshiko Fukuhara
1952
Movie
Sudden Rain
as Ayako (Fumiko's niece)
1956
Movie
Little Peach
as Anzukko
1958
Movie
Ginza Cosmetics
as Kyôko
1951
Movie
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as Self
1975
Movie
The Three Treasures
as Princess Miyazu
1959
Movie
Heaven's Bookstore
as Sachi Hiyama
2004
Movie
Daredevil in the Castle
as Ai
1961