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 inter
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 .
Born
Dec 05, 1931
Aso [now Namegata], Ibaraki, Japan
Known For
Acting
Movies
124 acting
0 crew
Popularity
1.1
Known For
High and Low
1963
as Reiko Gondo
Red Beard
1965
as Madwoman ("The Mantis")
Tokyo Story
1953
as Kyoko Hirayama
Shall We Dance?
1996
as Keiko Kishikawa
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
as Anju
After Life
1999
as Kyoko Watanabe
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
as Yoshiko Nishi
Mothra
1961
as Michi Hanamura
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954
as Osan
The Lower Depths
1957
as Okayo, Osugi's Sister
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