Kyōko Kagawa
Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子 Kagawa Kyōko, born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff.
Tokyo Story
as Kyoko HirayamaThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...
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High and Low
as Reiko GondoA shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when...
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After Life
as Kyoko WatanabeOn a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services...
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Red Beard
as Madwoman ("The Mantis")Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as AnjuIn medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Yoshiko NishiIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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The Lower Depths
as Okayo, Osugi's SisterResidents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...
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Mothra
as Michi HanamuraShipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific...
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Madadayo
as Professor's WifeBased on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida...
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The Crucified Lovers
as OsanIn 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is...
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Shall We Dance?
as Keiko KishikawaA bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - ActressAn account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as FukukoShozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his...
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Sudden Rain
as Ayako (Fumiko's niece)A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Mother
as Toshiko FukuharaA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Love Letter
as YasukoA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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Daredevil in the Castle
as AiDuring the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as OkiIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
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Ginza Cosmetics
as KyôkoA luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
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The Three Treasures
as Princess MiyazuThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Lightning
as TsubomiThe story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her...
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Women in Prison
as Taeko Hara, prisonerThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
as uncreditedJidaigeki by Tai Kato
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Girls of the Night
as Mrs. ShimaIn the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this...
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An Osaka Story
as OnatsuA poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as KeikoTora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan...
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Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
as O-RieJidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Little Peach
as AnzukkoAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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Heaven's Bookstore
as Sachi HiyamaKenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a...
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Tower of Lilies
as Fumi UeharaA group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the...
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Lord of Red Banner
as uncreditedA young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.
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Bluestockings
as uncreditedSet during Japan's Taisho Era (1912-1926), "Bluestockings" tells the tale story of a love...
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Gambler and the Princess
as Princess KikuFilm directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
as Reiko AshitakaSakura, who just graduated from a university, begins to work at a library in Katsuragi, Nara...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Mado Kara Tobidase
as Mariko FujiedaThe movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between...
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The Intermission
as uncreditedA unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at...
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Mo-Ruerani
as FukikoThe owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as uncreditedIn 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed...
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Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
as uncreditedOda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history....
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Rainy Night Duel
as Shizue AmajiMasahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman....
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Shimamori Tower
as uncreditedTogether with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the...
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流轉
as お秋In the eleventh year of the Tempō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement...
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Deep River
as Isobe's wifeA group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
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A Ripple in a Morning
as SisterAtsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in...
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Omotenashi
as Shimizu-senseiCultures meet and values are learnt through the renovation of an inn.
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The Outsiders
as Yukiko SaekiA drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the...
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Love at the Fogged Harbor
as uncreditedA bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.
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Woman Unveiled
as uncreditedStory of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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The Tale of Genji
as uncreditedTV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as OkiIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
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Tokyo Rendezvous
as Fujiko NatsumiA salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
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The Shiinomi School
as Kayoko AtsumiA university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and...
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A Man in the Storm
as AkikoJudo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with...
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The Human Wall
as FumikoDrama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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Scars of Honor
as uncreditedJapan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute...
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Shikibu monogatari
as Isa OtomoToyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Bad Sleep Well
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Karate Sanshiro
as uncreditedShunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging...
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Girl's Reform School
as uncreditedThe day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.
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Tomoshibi
as uncreditedStudents in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma...
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Aiyoku no sabaki
as Fujikawa MotokoMotoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls...
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Red Whale, White Snake
as uncreditedOn her way to Chikura to live with her son, Yasue Amami gets off at the Tateyama train station....
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His Scarlet Cloak
as uncreditedThe humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But...
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Death on the Mountain
as Masako IwaseThree bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances,...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
as uncreditedIkeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's...
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Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
as SelfAfter the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Lower Depths
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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as YukiA young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in...
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as SelfA worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema...
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Futarikko
as uncreditedBorn over a tofu shop in Osaka, twin sisters Reiko and Kyoko have very different characters....
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Life of a Flower
as Akiyama ShizuThe story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
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Mizuiro no toki
as 知子の母・松宮房子The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a...
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Imo Tako Nankin
as 花岡和代The series takes place in 1962 Osaka. Hanaoka Machiko, 37, is single and works at a hardware...
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Silent Poor
as Fusae EdaSilent poor... the poor and needy whose cries for help are drowned out in today's busling...
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