Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1931-12-05 (Age: 95)
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 .
Filmography (109)
The Ozu Diaries
2025
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
2022
Shimamori Tower
2022
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022
Mo-Ruerani
2021
Omotenashi
2018
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
2017
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
Somewhere in Kamakura
2016
Beautiful 2016
2016
東京の日
2015
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
2015
The Intermission
2013
Tokyo Rendezvous
2008
