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Kyōko Kagawa
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 .
As actor
The Ozu Diaries
Shimamori Tower
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About
Mo-Ruerani
Omotenashi
Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
Mifune: The Last Samurai
Somewhere in Kamakura
Beautiful 2016
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
Tokyo Day
The Intermission
Tokyo Rendezvous
Red Whale, White Snake
Bluestockings
Heaven's Bookstore
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
Kokoro no Koukyougaku
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard'
After Life
Shall We Dance?
Deep River
Madadayo
Shikibu monogatari
Song of the Spring Pony
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Have Wings on Your Heart