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Kyōko Kagawa

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Kyōko Kagawa
香川 京子
Kyōko Kagawa in 1954
Born
Kyoko Ikebe (池辺 香子)[1]

(1931-12-05) 5 December 1931 (age 92)
Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Other namesKyoko Makino (牧野 香子)
OccupationActress
Years active1950–present

Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子, Kagawa Kyōko, born 5 December 1931) 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

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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] 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.[1] Upon her return, 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]

Selected filmography

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Films

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Kyōko Kagawa in Tokyo Heroine (1950)

Television

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Honours

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "香川京子". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "香川京子". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  3. ^ "香川京子". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  4. ^ Hamilton, Mike (2 September 2011). "Kyoko Kagawa retrospective looks back at Japan's golden age of cinema". The Japan Times. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  5. ^ "田中絹代賞とは". Tanaka Kinuyo Memorial Association. Archived from the original on December 10, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  6. ^ "FIAF-Award". Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
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