Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子, Kagawa Kyōko, born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress. During her 70 years spanning career,[2] 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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香川 京子 | |
Born | Kyoko Ikebe (池辺 香子)[1] (1931-12-05) 5 December 1931 (age 90) Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan |
Other names | Kyoko Makino (牧野 香子) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1950–present |
Kagawa was born in Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture,[1] and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Tenth High School for Girls in 1949.[3] She was discovered in the "New Face Nomination" contest run by the Tokyo Shimbun in 1949[1] and gave her film debut the following year in Mado kara tobidase.[2] She regularly appeared in films by Akira Kusosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shirō Toyoda, Hiroshi Shimizu and others.
Kagawa married in 1963 and followed her husband, a newspaper reporter, to New York City.[1] After her return from the US, she acted in television dramas until she appeared again on the big screen in Satsuo Yamamoto's Karei-naru ichizoku (1974).[1]
In 2011, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, honored her long career and contribution to Japanese cinema with an exhibition dedicated to her.[4]
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