Kyōko Kagawa
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1931-12-05 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan
Kyōko Kagawa
Biography
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
(2025)
The Ozu Diaries
as Self
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2021)
Mo-Ruerani
as Fukiko
(2018)
Omotenashi
as Shimizu-sensei
(2017)
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
as Reiko Ashitaka
(2016)
(2016)
(2016)
Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - Actress
(2015)
東京の日
as Michiko
(2015)
(2013)
(2008)
Tokyo Rendezvous
as Fujiko Natsumi
(2006)
(2005)
(2004)
Heaven's Bookstore
as Sachi Hiyama
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
Kokoro no Koukyougaku
as (Voice)
(1999)
After Life
as Kyoko Watanabe
(1996)
Shall We Dance?
as Keiko Kishikawa
(1995)
Deep River
as Isobe's wife
(1993)
Madadayo
as Professor's Wife
(1991)
(1990)
Shikibu monogatari
as Isa Otomo
(1985)
(1979)
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as Keiko
(1978)
(1975)
(1974)
The Family
as Ichiko Mima
(1965)
Red Beard
as Madwoman ("The Mantis")
(1963)
High and Low
as Reiko Gondo
(1962)
As Long as There's Tomorrow
as Natsuko
(1962)
(1962)
(1961)
Girls of the Night
as Mrs. Shima
(1961)
Mothra
as Michi Hanamura
(1961)
Death on the Mountain
as Masako Iwase
(1961)
(1960)
The Bad Sleep Well
as Yoshiko Nishi
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(1959)
The Three Treasures
as Princess Miyazu
(1959)
Gambler and the Princess
as Princess Kiku
(1959)
(1959)
The Human Wall
as Fumiko
(1958)
Kampai! Miai Kekkon
as Emiko Toda
(1958)
(1958)
The Child Writers
as Fumio's Teacher
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
The Outsiders
as Yukiko Saeki
(1958)
(1958)
Little Peach
as Anzukko
(1957)
(1957)
The Lower Depths
as Okayo, Osugi's Sister
(1957)
A Man in the Storm
as Akiko
(1957)
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Oki
(1957)
An Osaka Story
as Onatsu
(1957)
On This Earth
as Fuyuko
(1957)
(1956)
流轉
as お秋
(1956)
Rainy Night Duel
as Shizue Amaji
(1956)
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as Fukuko
(1956)
(1956)
Morishige, where are you going?
as Megumi Mori
(1956)
Sudden Rain
as Ayako (Fumiko's niece)
(1956)
Women in Prison
as Taeko Hara, prisoner
(1955)
Christ in Bronze
as Mónica
(1955)
Ai Sureba Koso
as Kuniko (segment 2)
(1955)
(1955)
The Shiinomi School
as Kayoko Atsumi
(1954)
The Crucified Lovers
as Osan
(1954)
Sansho the Bailiff
as Anju
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1953)
Tokyo Story
as Kyoko Hirayama
(1953)
Tower of Lilies
as Fumi Uehara
(1953)
Aiyoku no sabaki
as Fujikawa Motoko
(1953)
Love Letter
as Yasuko
(1952)
Man in the Storm
as Tomi Tsuboi
(1952)
Mother
as Toshiko Fukuhara
(1952)
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Mitsuko Kawai
(1952)
Lil's Return from Shanghai
as Lil Takemoto / Katsuko Suzuki
(1952)
A Ripple in a Morning
as Sister
(1952)
Lightning
as Tsubomi
(1952)
(1952)
(1952)
(1951)
(1951)
Ginza Cosmetics
as Kyôko
(1951)
(1951)
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
as Yukie Murata
(1951)
(1950)
Mado Kara Tobidase
as Mariko Fujieda
(1950)
(1950)
Snow-Flake
as Itakura's sister