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Kyōko Kagawa
Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan
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 Wel…
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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 .
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2025
The Ozu Diaries
Movie Self
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2022
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
Movie Self
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2022
Shimamori Tower
Movie
- 2022
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2021
Mo-Ruerani
Movie Fukiko
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2018
Omotenashi
Movie Shimizu-sensei
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2017
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
Movie Reiko Ashitaka
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2016
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Movie Self - Actress
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2016
Somewhere in Kamakura
Movie
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2016
Beautiful 2016
Movie
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2015
Tokyo Day
Movie Michiko
- 2015
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2014
Silent Poor
TV show Fusae Eda
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2013
The Intermission
Movie
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2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
TV show Self
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2008
Tokyo Rendezvous
Movie Fujiko Natsumi
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2006
Red Whale, White Snake
Movie
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2006
Imo Tako Nankin
TV show 花岡和代
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2005
Bluestockings
Movie
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2004
Heaven's Bookstore
Movie Sachi Hiyama
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
- 2002
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2002
Kokoro no Koukyougaku
Movie (Voice)
- 2001
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1999
After Life
Movie Kyoko Watanabe
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1996
Futarikko
TV show
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1996
Shall We Dance?
Movie Keiko Kishikawa
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1995
Kura
TV show
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1995
Deep River
Movie Isobe's wife
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1993
Madadayo
Movie Professor's Wife
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1991
The Tale of Genji
TV show
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1990
Shikibu monogatari
Movie Isa Otomo
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1985
Song of the Spring Pony
Movie
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1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Movie 圭子
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1978
Have Wings on Your Heart
Movie
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1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie Self
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1975
Mizuiro no toki
TV show 知子の母・松宮房子
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1974
The Family
Movie Ichiko Mima
