Kyōko Kagawa
Kyōko Kagawa | |
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香川 京子 | |
 Kyoko Kagawa in 1954 | |
| Born | Kyoko Ikebe (池辺 香子)[citation needed] 5 December 1931 |
| Other names | Kyoko Makino (牧野 香子) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1950–present |
Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子, Kagawa Kyōko, born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress known for her roles in films like Tokyo Story, Sansho the Bailiff, Mothra, and High and Low. She has appeared in 128 films.[1] Her most recent film was Moruerani in 2021. Kagawa graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tenth High School for Girls in 1949.[2]
Biography[]
Kagawa was born in Ibaraki[3] in 1931 and grown in Hyōgo and Tokyo. She originally wanted to become a ballerina. She was discovered by a film studio after winning the "New Face Nomination" contest run by the Tokyo Shimbun in 1949 and began a career in acting. Her first major film role was in a movie Mado Kara Tobidase (Jump Out of the Window).[3]
She became a household name for her role in Tokyo Story in 1953. She also appeared in the famous film Sansho the Bailiff. Akira Kurosawa made her one of his regular performers. She played the love interest of Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa's favorite leading man, several times. Kurosawa used her in The Bad Sleep Well, High and Low and Red Beard.[4]
In 1965, Kagawa married and followed her husband, who was a newspaper reporter, to New York City. After returning from the US in 1968, she began to act more in television than on the big screen. She later returned to the cinema, with films like Madadayo and Ballad.
In late 2011, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, honored her long career and her contribution to Japanese cinema with an exhibition titled 'Kyoko Kagawa, Film Actress.'
Selected filmography[]
Films[]
- Tokyo Heroine (1950)
- Man in the Storm (1950)
- Mother (1952)
- Lightning (1952)
- Tokyo Story (1953)
- Love Letter (1953)
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- The Crucified Lovers (1954)
- Onna no Koyomi (1954)
- Christ in Bronze (1956)
- Shūu (1956)
- An Osaka Story (1957)
- The Lower Depths (1957)
- (1958)
- Anzukko (1958)
- The Three Treasures (1959)
- The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
- Mothra (1961)
- The Story of Osaka Castle (1961) as Ai[5]
- High and Low (1963)
- Red Beard (1965)
- Karei-naru Ichizoku (1974)
- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
- Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)
- Madadayo (1993)
- After Life (1998)
- Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016), herself
- Tenshi no Iru Toshokan (2017)
- Shimamori no Tō (2021), Old Rin Higa
- The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (2022), Osada[6]
Television[]
- Hana no Shōgai (1963)
- Kasuga no Tsubone (1989), Kōdai-in
- In This Corner of the World (2018)
Honours[]
- Medal with Purple Ribbon (1998)
- Kinuyo Tanaka Award (1993)[7]
- Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2004)
- FIAF Award (2011)
References[]
- ^ "Kagawa Kyoko" (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 June 2009.
- ^ 別冊宝島2551『日本の女優 100人』p.38.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hamilton, Mike (2 September 2011). "Kyoko Kagawa retrospective looks back at Japan's golden age of cinema". The Japan Times. The Japan Times Ltd. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ Schilling, Mark (11 November 2011). "An audience with Kyoko Kagawa". Japan Times. p. 18.
- ^ Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.
- ^ "峠 最後のサムライ". eiga.com. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- ^ "田中絹代賞とは". Tanaka Kinuyo Memorial Association. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
External links[]
Media related to Kyōko Kagawa at Wikimedia Commons
- Kyōko Kagawa at IMDb
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- 1931 births
- Living people
- Japanese film actresses
- 20th-century Japanese actresses
- 21st-century Japanese actresses
- Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
- Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class