Kyōko Kagawa Explained

Kyōko Kagawa
Native Name:香川 京子
Native Name Lang:ja
Birth Name:Kyoko Ikebe (池辺 香子)[1]
Birth Date:5 December 1931
Birth Place:Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Other Names:Kyoko Makino (牧野 香子)
Occupation:Actress
Years Active:1950–present

is a Japanese actress. During her career spanning 70 years,[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.

Biography

Kagawa was born in Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, 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 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.[4]

Selected filmography

Films

Television

Honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 香川京子 . Kinenote . Japanese . 4 November 2022.
  2. Web site: 香川京子 . Japanese Movie Database . 17 June 2009 . ja.
  3. Web site: 香川京子 . Kotobank . ja . 4 November 2022.
  4. News: Kyoko Kagawa retrospective looks back at Japan's golden age of cinema . Hamilton . Mike . 2 September 2011 . The Japan Times . 4 November 2022.
  5. Web site: 田中絹代賞とは. March 16, 2021. Tanaka Kinuyo Memorial Association. December 10, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081210032517/http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/kinuyo21/kinuyosho.htm. dead.
  6. Web site: FIAF-Award . Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film . 5 November 2022.