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Kyōko Kagawa
🎂 Dec 5, 1931 (94)
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 Well and High and Low, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff.
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High and Low
1963
Tokyo Story
1953
Red Beard
1965
The Bad Sleep Well
1960
Chikamatsu Monogatari
1954
Mothra
1961
After Life
1999
Daredevil in the Castle
1961
Sansho the Bailiff
1954
Madadayo
1993
The Lower Depths
1957
Shall We Dance?
1996
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
The Three Treasures
1959
Tower of Lilies
1953
The Family
1974
Little Peach
1958
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979
Ginza Cosmetics
1951
The Human Wall
1959
Girls of the Night
1961
Lightning
1952
Heaven's Bookstore
2004
The Shiinomi School
1955
Sudden Rain
1956
Mother
1952
Deep River
1995
An Osaka Story
1957
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956
Love Letter
1953
Omotenashi
2018
Tokyo Rendezvous
2008
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
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Kyōko Kagawa
1931-12-05 · 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 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 .