Actor

Kyōko Kagawa

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Acting credits

110

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

0.5

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Movies: 102Series: 8

TMDB ID: 34374

IMDb ID: nm0434593

Known for: Acting

Born: December 5, 1931

Age: 94

Place of birth: Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1950 - 2025

Years active: 76

Average TMDB rating: 7.55

Wikidata: Q3201022

Also known as

카가와 쿄코 • Кёко Кагава

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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 .