
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