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 .
117 acting credits
Acting · 117
High and Low
1963
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Life of a Flower
1963
Mizuiro no toki
1975
Imo Tako Nankin
2006
Tokyo Story
1953
Futarikko
1996
Kura
1995
Red Beard
1965
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Silent Poor
2014
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
Mothra
1961
Madadayo
1993
The Lower Depths
1957
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954
After Life
1999
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
The Three Treasures
1959
Shall We Dance?
1996
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
1959
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022
Daredevil in the Castle
1961
The Family
1974
A Man in the Storm
1957
Heaven's Bookstore
2004
If Indeed One Loves
1955
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Little Peach
1958
The Intermission
2013
Deep River
1995
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
Girls of the Night
1961
Omotenashi
2018
Tower of Lilies
1953
Sudden Rain
1956
Lightning
1952
Mother
1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
1952
On This Earth
1957
Nonki saiban
1955
Mother's First Love
1954
Holiday in Tokyo
1958
The Daughters of the Saotome Family
1962
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Have Wings on Your Heart
1978
Shimamori Tower
2022
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
The Outsiders
1958
The Human Wall
1959
Rainy Night Duel
1956
流轉
1956
Love Letter
1953
Five Sisters
1954
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
2017
Bluestockings
2005
Hanran
1954
The Shiinomi School
1955
Mado Kara Tobidase
1950
The Tale of Genji
1991
Christ in Bronze
1955
Somewhere in Kamakura
2016
Red Whale, White Snake
2006
Karate Sanshiro
1951
Shikibu monogatari
1990
His Scarlet Cloak
1958
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
2002
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
2022
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
Song of the Spring Pony
1985
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
1950
Snow-Flake
1950
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'
2002
The Shadow Daughter
1957
The Glorious Days
1954
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
2002
Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
1964
The Child Writers
1958
The Ozu Diaries
2025
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
2015
Woman Unveiled
1958
Aiyoku no sabaki
1953
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
1960
Love at the Fogged Harbor
1962
Tokyo Rendezvous
2008
Mo-Ruerani
2021
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
1951
Scars of Honor
1960
Tomoshibi
1954
東京の日
2015
Man in the Storm
1952
Girl's Reform School
1956
勘太郎月夜唄
1952
An Osaka Story
1957
Beautiful 2016
2016
Women in Prison
1956
Farewell to the Highland Station
1951
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Death on the Mountain
1961
The Wife is a University Student
1956
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1951
The Oil-Hell Murder
1957
Kampai! Miai Kekkon
1958
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
Lord of Red Banner
1960
A Strong Wind Blows
1956
Gambler and the Princess
1959
Moth Lamp
1953
The Canary Cage, Spellbound Love
1959
The Prodigal Son
1964
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
1952
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
1952
Kokoro no Koukyougaku
2002