Kyōko Kagawa
Kyōko Kagawa was born 5 December 1931 is a Japanese actress. During her career spanning 70 years, she has worked with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, appearing in films such as Tokyo Story, Sansho the Bailiff, The Bad Sleep Well, Mothra, and High and Low.
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Kyōko Kagawa
朝日新聞社 · 『 アサヒグラフ 』 1954年6月2日号 · Public domain
- Name
- Kyōko Kagawa
- Birth Name
- Kyoko Ikebe (池辺 香子)
- Born
- 5 December 1931
- Birthplace
- Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Actress
- Nationality
- Japan
- Honours
- Medal with Purple Ribbon · Kinuyo Tanaka Award · Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress · The Order of the Rising Sun and Gold Rays with Rosette
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kyōko Kagawa was born 5 December 1931 is a Japanese actress. During her career spanning 70 years, she has worked with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, appearing in films such as Tokyo Story, Sansho the Bailiff, The Bad Sleep Well, Mothra, and High and Low.
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• Name — Kyōko Kagawa • Native Name — 香川 京子 • Birth Name — Kyoko Ikebe (池辺 香子) • Born — 5 December 1931 • Birthplace — Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan • Other Names — Kyoko Makino (牧野 香子) • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1950–present
Biography
Biography
Kagawa was born in Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tenth High School for Girls in 1949. She was discovered in the "New Face Nomination" contest run by the Tokyo Shimbun in 1949 and gave her film debut the following year in Mado kara tobidase. A prolific actress, she collaborated with directors like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Shiro Toyoda, Kozaburo Yoshimura, Ishiro Honda, Yuzo Kawashima, Hiroshi Inagaki and Hirokazu Koreeda. Kagawa married in 1963. After appearing in Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965), she followed her husband, a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, to New York. Upon her return, she acted in television dramas until she appeared again on the big screen in Satsuo Yamamoto's Karei-naru Ichizoku (1974). In 2011, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, honored her long career and contribution to Japanese cinema with an exhibition dedicated to her.
Television
Television
• Hana no Shōgai (NHK, 1963) • Kasuga no Tsubone (NHK, 1989) • In This Corner of the World (TBS, 2018)
Films
• Illustration — Kyōko Kagawa in Tokyo Heroine (1950) • 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) • The Shiinomi School • Christ in Bronze (1956) • A Cat, Shozo, and Two Women (1956) • Shūu (1956) • An Osaka Story (1957) • The Lower Depths (1957) • A Holiday in Tokyo (1958) • Anzukko (1958) • The Three Treasures (1959) • The Bad Sleep Well (1960) • Mothra (1961) • The Story of Osaka Castle (1961) • Girls of the Night (1961) • 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) • Shikibu Monogatari (1990) • Madadayo (1993) • After Life (1998) • Letters from the Mountains (2002) • Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016) • Tenshi no Iru Toshokan (2017) • Shimamori (2022) • The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (2022)
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Honours
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1998) • Kinuyo Tanaka Award (1993) • Order of the Rising Sun (2004) • FIAF Award (2011)
Kyōko Kagawa in 1950 Japanese movie Hiroine of Tokyo
Directed by en:Kōji Shima, produced by en:Shintoho · Screenshot of the movie
映画『恋文』の台詞合わせ（左から、 田中絹代 、 久我美子 、 香川京子 、 関千恵子 、 花岡菊子 ）
朝日新聞社 · 『アサヒグラフ』 1953年11月11日号
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- 1.Japanese Film Star Turns Housewife in Queens. The New York Times. 16 décembre 1965 .
- 2.Filmographie. JMDb.
- 3.Kyoko Kagawa retrospective looks back at Japan's golden age of cinema. The Japan Times. . 2 septembre 2011. lire en.
- 4.prix Kinema Junpō - (1990年). kinenote.com.
- 5.cérémonie des Japan Academy Prize - (1994年). www.japan-academy-prize.jp.
- 6.１９９３年 第３６回 ブルーリボン賞. allcinema.net.
- 7.Liste des récipiendaires du prix Kinuyo Tanaka sur le site du musée Kinuyo Tanaka Bunkakan. kinuyo-bunka.jp.
- 8.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (1993年). mainichi.jp.
- 9.An audience with Kyoko Kagawa. The Japan Times. . 11 novembre 2011. lire en.
- 10.cérémonie des Japan Academy Prize - (1979年). japan-academy-prize.jp.
- 11.cérémonie des Japan Academy Prize - (1991年). japan-academy-prize.jp.
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