Kyōko Kagawa

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.

Biography Kagawa was born in Asō (currently Namegata), Ibaraki Prefecture, She was discovered in the "New Face Nomination" contest run by the Tokyo Shimbun in 1949

Selected filmography Films

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)

Television Hana no Shōgai (NHK, 1963) Kasuga no Tsubone (NHK, 1989) In This Corner of the World (TBS, 2018)

Honours Medal with Purple Ribbon (1998) Order of the Rising Sun (2004)