Kyôko Kishida
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.
Woman in the Dunes
as The WomanA vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken...
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The Face of Another
as NurseA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask...
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An Autumn Afternoon
as Madame KaoruShuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as RyûkoAfter 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)Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures...
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The Inferno
as Shima IkegataHell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a...
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Tokyo Bordello
as NarratorA 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 InoneWarlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of...
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Dora-heita
as Lady of the Sister WindA new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in...
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Manji
as Sonoko KakiuchiThe four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
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Zodiac Killers
as Old geisha Miyako (cameo)Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while...
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Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
as uncreditedBased on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a...
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Toward the Terra
as Grandmother (voice)A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal...
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Sure Death 4
as BentenHaving been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled...
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The Sea and Poison
as Ohba, Head NurseTwo interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as Lady HagiAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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Heaven and Earth
as Maid-In-WaitingWarlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal...
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The Inugamis
as Koto TeacherWhen a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy)Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes...
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The Broken Commandment
as Inoko's wifeUshimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
as Sanko OtoriSecond part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Being Two Isn't Easy
as Chiyo's FriendThe days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point...
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Curse of the Dog God
as Kimiyo TarumiA trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and...
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Detective Story
as Kimie HasenumaNaomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as Sanko OtoriThe upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...
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Rikyu
as WifeLate in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through...
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Vixen
as AkieMichi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school,...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as Naoko AnekojiAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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Spring Bell
as Fusako IshimotoRokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...
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Under the Same Moon
as AzumayaWhen Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a...
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Spring Snow
as uncreditedBased on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows...
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Challenge to Live
as uncreditedAn employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a...
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Chloe
as Cleaning LadyKotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment....
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Winter Days
as uncreditedWinter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the...
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Haunted School 2
as School MasterSequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it's...
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Ten Dark Women
as Sayoko GotoKaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him....
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Tracing Jake
as uncreditedInuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in...
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Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
as Narration (voice)On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young....
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Journey Into Solitude
as Mama, the girl's motherBored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific...
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Vengeance for Sale
as OtomeIn a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in...
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A Woman Called En
as uncreditedSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
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Get 'em All
as SallyGang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother...
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Crane
as KichibiBased on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru...
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
as UraoThree tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
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Lullaby of Death
as uncreditedFollowing her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.
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Her Brother
as Mrs. TanumaSet in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of...
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Utamaro's World
as OchikaUtamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
as Sumiko TsuboiComedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer,...
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Conquest
as KaoyoProvincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to...
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Rennyo and His Mother
as uncreditedRennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in...
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Homicide
as Fumiko AndoThis film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of...
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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
as uncreditedHiguchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu...
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Nichiren
as uncreditedAn epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during...
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The Twilight Story
as uncreditedIn this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...
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Sapporo Winter Olympics
as Narrator (voice)A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.
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Let's Gotokuji
as uncreditedThe Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this...
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A Flame at the Pier
as ReikoA young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the...
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The Book of the Dead
as Narrator (voice)A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her...
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Five Ronins
as uncreditedThe story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl,...
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The 8-Tomb Village
as Kotake Tajimi / Koume TajimiA band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4...
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Actress
as KuginukiyaStory of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with...
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I Lived, But...
as SelfAn extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...
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Shinsengumi
as uncreditedProduced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the...
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A Tale of Young Elopement
as Nobuko KitashiroA 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting...
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The Shogun's Vault
as uncreditedTomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving...
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Brand of Evil
as uncreditedA Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he...
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The Lowest Man
as SakieA young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his...
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Mothers
as (voice)Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.
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The Days of Evil Women
as uncreditedThe common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...
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Noh Mask Murders
as Natsu MizukamiThe patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who...
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To Love
as Taeko KanoMitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets....
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Fusa
as uncreditedPeriod piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have...
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Seito shokun!
as uncreditedBased on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji
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Love and Greed
as Yoko SaijyoNamiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her...
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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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Dark hunter
as OhamaThief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering,...
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Where did Sharaku go?
as Oharu TsutayaWriter Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his...
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as uncreditedDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Tales of the Bizarre
as uncreditedInspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
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The Private Detective Mike
as uncreditedMike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the...
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Romansu
as 真之助の母・香木艶子The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The...
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Princess Tutu
as Narrator (voice)Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a...
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Akō Rōshi
as Aguri"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit...
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Karin
as 小森晶乃A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only...
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Haru no Sakamichi
as Yodo-donoThe story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.
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Forbidden Fruit
as Mizukoshi AyakoMayako, a married woman, finds her life of comfort and casual affairs thrown into disarray when...
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Moomin
as Moomin (voice)Moomin is a Japanese anime series broadcast on the Fuji Television Network between 1969 and...
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HR
as Yagita's motherA situation comedy set in a fixed-time high school in Tokyo.
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Tokugawa Yoshinobu
as MatsushimaThe 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa...
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Bewitched In Tokyo
as SakuraArisa is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she...
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Gokenin Zankuro
as Zankurô's motherZankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to...
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Good News
as uncreditedKurosawa, who works for a film production company, meets Akiko, a divorcee and single mother,...
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Wounded Angels
as Ayabe TakakoTwo lovable idiot "private detectives" (or at least, that's their cover story —more like...
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Lone Wolf and Cub
as NarratorRonin Ogami Itto travels around 17th century Japan, accompanied by his young son Daigoro, in...
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Love Song
as uncreditedA drama about a man and woman who come to know true love after unexpected circumstances cause...
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Akai Unmei
as uncreditedThe story of two girls switched in an orphanage.
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A-Un
as uncreditedSenkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are...
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New Moomin
as Moomin (voice)A remake of the 1969-70 Moomin series. This version is more closely based on the books by the...
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Kagi-shi
as uncreditedA locksmith who can open any kind of lock with his well-honed fingertip skills is caught up in a...
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Natsumeke no Shokutaku
as uncreditedA Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love...
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Onna: Sono Ai no Series
as uncreditedCollection of short stories about women in various periods of Japanese history. Based on famous...
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