Kyôko Kishida

Born: 1930-04-29

Kyōko Kishida (April 29, 1930 – December 17, 2006) was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and writer of children's books. Her father was Kunio Kishida, a playwright and the founder of the Bungaku-za. She became an actress in 1950, and starred in a Yukio Mishima production of Salome (1960). Her film and television drama credits number in the hundreds. Among them are four Taiga drama series on NHK television, with roles such as Aguri (the wife of Asano Naganori and Yodo-Dono (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi). She appeared in various roles, including acting and narrating, in various Ōoku series on television. In the series Gokenin Zankurō, she portrayed the mother of the title character (played by Ken Watanabe), and narrated a Lone Wolf and Cub television series. Kishida's film credits include Yasujirō Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), The Broken Commandment (based on a novel by Shimazaki Toson), Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Woman in the Dunes (1964) and The Face of Another (1966) (both from novels by Kōbō Abe), Kon Ichikawa's The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (1987), based on the classic story, Heaven and Earth (1990), and Spring Snow, the 2005 Isao Yukisada adaptation of the Mishima novel. Anime fans know Kishida as the voice of Moomin in the original 1960s television series. She provided narration for Vampire Princess Miyu and Princess Tutu as well as the 2005 Book of the Dead. In addition, she dubbed roles for Columbo and Miss Marple, and narrated Prophecies of Nostradamus. Kishida appeared in commercials for Nestle, TDK, and Asahi Shimbun. Kyōko Kishida died on December 17, 2006 in Tokyo from respiratory failure caused by a brain tumor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyōko Kishida, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Face of Another

as Nurse
Released: 1966-07-15

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask...

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

as Ryûko
Released: 1961-01-28

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....

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A Thousand and One Nights

as Miriam / Jaris (voice)
Released: 1969-06-14

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures...

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Woman in the Dunes

as The Woman
Released: 1964-02-15

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken...

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An Autumn Afternoon

as Madame Kaoru
Released: 1962-11-18

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...

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Detective Story

as Kimie Hasenuma
Released: 1983-07-16

Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a...

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Tokyo Bordello

as Narrator
Released: 1987-06-13

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the...

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Ninja, A Band of Assassins

as Inone
Released: 1962-12-01

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of...

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Heaven and Earth

as Maid-In-Waiting
Released: 1990-11-24

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal...

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Rikyu

as Wife
Released: 1989-09-15

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through...

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Manji

as Sonoko Kakiuchi
Released: 1964-07-25

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

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The Inugamis

as Koto Teacher
Released: 1976-10-16

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the...

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Ten Dark Women

as Sayoko Goto
Released: 1961-05-03

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him....

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Her Brother

as Mrs. Tanuma
Released: 1960-11-01

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of...

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Homicide

as Fumiko Ando
Released: 1964-06-20

This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of...

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Sure Death 4

as Benten
Released: 1987-06-06

Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled...

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The Inferno

as Shima Ikegata
Released: 1979-06-03

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a...

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Tracing Jake

as uncredited
Released: 2004-02-07

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in...

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Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

as uncredited
Released: 2001-12-15

Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her...

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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

as Sanko Otori
Released: 1970-08-14

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...

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Fusa

as uncredited
Released: 1993-04-01

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have...

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Chloe

as Cleaning Lady
Released: 2001-06-15

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment....

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The Sea and Poison

as Ohba, Head Nurse
Released: 1986-10-17

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity...

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Japanese Godfather: Ambition

as Naoko Anekoji
Released: 1977-10-29

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...

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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

as Sanko Otori
Released: 1971-06-12

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...

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The School of Flesh

as uncredited
Released: 1965-02-14

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Zodiac Killers

as Old geisha Miyako (cameo)
Released: 1991-07-20

Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while...

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World Famous Fairy Tale Series

as Narrator
Released: 1975-10-01

A Japanese anime series of short films based on fairy tales and classic stories, produced by...

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Spring Snow

as uncredited
Released: 2005-10-09

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows...

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Toward the Terra

as Grandmother (voice)
Released: 1980-04-26

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal...

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I Lived, But...

as Self
Released: 1983-10-29

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...

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Lullaby of Death

as Mayumi
Released: 1982-10-09

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya...

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Spring Bell

as Fusako Ishimoto
Released: 1985-11-09

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...

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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

as Lady Hagi
Released: 1963-04-28

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...

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Unico - Black Cloud and White Feather

as uncredited
Released: 1979-04-05

The Goddess Venus is jealous of the beautiful human girl Psyche and blames her pet unicorn,...

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The 8-Tomb Village

as Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi
Released: 1996-10-26

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4...

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The Broken Commandment

as Inoko's wife
Released: 1962-04-06

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now...

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Winter Days

as uncredited
Released: 2003-11-27

Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the...

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Love and Greed

as Yoko Saijyo
Released: 1964-02-24

Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her...

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Seito shokun!

as uncredited
Released: 1984-12-22

Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji

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Love at the Fogged Harbor

as uncredited
Released: 1962-02-21

A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.

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Prophecies of Nostradamus

as Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy)
Released: 1974-08-03

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes...

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Noh Mask Murders

as Natsu Mizukami
Released: 1991-03-15

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who...

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Being Two Isn't Easy

as Chiyo's Friend
Released: 1962-11-18

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point...

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Haunted School 2

as School Master
Released: 1996-07-20

Sequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it's...

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The Shogun's Vault I

as uncredited
Released: 1981-07-14

Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving...

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A Flame at the Pier

as Reiko
Released: 1962-09-30

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the...

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An Inlet of Muddy Water

as uncredited
Released: 1953-11-23

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...

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Curse of the Dog God

as Kimiyo Tarumi
Released: 1977-06-18

A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and...

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Actress

as Kuginukiya
Released: 1987-01-17

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with...

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Journey Into Solitude

as Mama, the girl's mother
Released: 1972-10-28

Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific...

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Dora-heita

as Lady of the Sister Wind
Released: 2000-05-13

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in...

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Under the Same Moon

as Azumaya
Released: 2005-11-19

When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a...

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The Lowest Man

as Sakie
Released: 1958-09-07

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his...

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Where did Sharaku go?

as Oharu Tsutaya
Released: 1968-08-22

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his...

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Vixen

as Akie
Released: 1969-10-18

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school,...

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こんにちは赤ちゃん

as Ms Okiyama
Released: 1964-03-20

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Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-08

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Vengeance for Sale

as Otome
Released: 2002-02-16

In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in...

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The Time of Reckoning

as uncredited
Released: 1968-06-29

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful...

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Conquest

as Kaoyo
Released: 1965-11-21

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to...

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Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

as Narration (voice)
Released: 1990-08-10

On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young....

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Nichiren

as uncredited
Released: 1979-03-10

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during...

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Temptation on Glamour Island

as Sumiko Tsuboi
Released: 1959-01-15

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer,...

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Let's Gotokuji

as uncredited
Released: 1987-04-11

The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this...

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Mothers

as (voice)
Released: 1967-01-01

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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Sapporo Winter Olympics

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1972-06-24

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

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Warm Current

as Mikie Shima
Released: 1966-04-29

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Onna no naka no futatsu no kao

as uncredited
Released: 2004-08-22

2004 film

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Challenge to Live

as uncredited
Released: 1961-06-17

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a...

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The Harbor Lights

as uncredited
Released: 1961-02-26

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The Book of the Dead

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2005-07-01

A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her...

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A Woman Called En

as uncredited
Released: 1971-05-29

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...

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To Love

as Taeko Kano
Released: 1997-10-04

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets....

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Yaneura no Onna-tachi

as uncredited
Released: 1956-05-14

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Five Ronins

as uncredited
Released: 1963-03-03

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl,...

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The Shogun and His Mistresses

as Urao
Released: 1967-07-30

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

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Get 'em All

as Sally
Released: 1960-11-29

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother...

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Crane

as Kichibi
Released: 1988-05-21

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru...

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Flame of Father and Son

as uncredited
Released: 1981-10-27

Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son...

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Brand of Evil

as uncredited
Released: 1964-05-29

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he...

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The Days of Evil Women

as uncredited
Released: 1958-11-30

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...

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Rennyo and His Mother

as uncredited
Released: 1981-10-07

Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in...

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Utamaro's World

as Ochika
Released: 1977-02-20

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late...

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The Twilight Story

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-28

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...

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A Tale of Young Elopement

as Nobuko Kitashiro
Released: 1987-02-07

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting...

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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari

as uncredited
Released: 2004-11-01

Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu...

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The Hall of the Crying Deer

as uncredited
Released: 1986-09-20

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Dark hunter

as Ohama
Released: 1994-04-01

Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering,...

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Shinsengumi

as uncredited
Released: 2000-01-15

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the...

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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-10-09

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...

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Tales of the Bizarre

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-04-19

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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Romansu

as 真之助の母・香木艶子
First aired: 1984-04-02

The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The...

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Karin

as 小森晶乃
First aired: 1993-10-04

A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only...

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Moomin

as Moomin (voice)
First aired: 1969-10-05

Moomin is a Japanese anime series broadcast on the Fuji Television Network between 1969 and...

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Haru no Sakamichi

as Yodo-dono
First aired: 1971-01-03

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

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Akō Rōshi

as Aguri
First aired: 1964-01-05

"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit...

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

as Matsushima
First aired: 1998-01-04

The 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa...

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Princess Tutu

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 2002-08-16

Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a...

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The Private Detective Mike

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-07-01

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the...

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New Moomin

as Moomin (voice)
First aired: 1972-01-09

A remake of the 1969-70 Moomin series. This version is more closely based on the books by the...

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稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

as Kōkin Miyagawa
First aired: 2004-04-03

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Zoku zoku jiken

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-09-14

Daisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts...

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Lone Wolf and Cub

as Narrator
First aired: 2002-10-14

Ronin Ogami Itto travels around 17th century Japan, accompanied by his young son Daigoro, in...

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Gokenin Zankuro

as Zankurô's mother
First aired: 1995-01-09

Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to...

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Akai Unmei

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-04-23

The story of two girls switched in an orphanage.

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Nurseman

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-01-19

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HR

as Yagita's mother
First aired: 2002-10-09

A situation comedy set in a fixed-time high school in Tokyo.

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Wounded Angels

as Ayabe Takako
First aired: 1974-10-05

Two lovable idiot "private detectives" (or at least, that's their cover story —more like...

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Bewitched In Tokyo

as Sakura
First aired: 2004-01-16

Arisa is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she...

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Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka

as Kie Azuma
First aired: 1985-01-08

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Love Song

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-10-12

A drama about a man and woman who come to know true love after unexpected circumstances cause...

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A-Un

as uncredited
First aired: 1980-03-09

Senkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are...

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Forbidden Fruit

as Mizukoshi Ayako
First aired: 1997-10-09

Mayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when...

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Good News

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-04-11

Kurosawa, who works for a film production company, meets Akiko, a divorcee and single mother,...

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Onna: Sono Ai no Series

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-10-03

Collection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous...

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Kagi-shi

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-03-12

A locksmith who can open any kind of lock with his well-honed fingertip skills is caught up in a...

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Animal Doctor

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-04-17

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Natsumeke no Shokutaku

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-01-05

A Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love...

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