Kyôko Kishida

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Age

Movies

111

Born: April 29, 1930 – December 17, 2006
From: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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.

Works

111 films

An Inlet of Muddy Water

19536.3

Woman in the Dunes

19648.2

A Thousand and One Nights

19696.7

Spring Bell

19857.3

The Harbor Lights

19616.3

An Autumn Afternoon

19627.9

The Face of Another

19667.7

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

19618.4

The Days of Evil Women

19587.0

Heaven and Earth

19906.2

The Lowest Man

19589.0

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

19906.4

Tokyo Bordello

19875.6

Onna no naka no futatsu no kao

20041.0

The Inferno

19796.9

Rikyu

19897.5

The Inugami Family

19767.0

Manji

19646.5

Nichiren

19797.0

Vixen

19696.7

Wool 100%

20065.9

Prophecies of Nostradamus

19745.9

Zodiac Killers

19914.7

The Shogun and His Mistresses

19674.7

The 8-Tomb Village

19966.8

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

20015.9

Her Brother

19607.1

Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari

2004

Utamaro's World

19775.6

Princess from the Moon

19876.5

Unico: Black Cloud and White Feathers

19796.9

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

19777.7

Conquest

19656.0

Just Barely

1960

Detective Story

19836.7

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

19636.7

Curse of the Dog God

19775.6

Thumbelina

19786.3

Spring Snow

20056.5

Toward the Terra

19806.3

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

19626.4

Yurakucho 0 Street

1958

Fusa

19955.9

Warm Current

1966

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

19706.8

The Broken Commandment

19626.8

To Love

19976.7

The Sea and Poison

19867.1

Sure Death 4

19877.0

Brand of Evil

19647.7

Haunted School 2

19967.3

Get 'em All

19607.0

Noh Mask Murders

19916.3

Actress

19877.7

Lullaby of Death

19826.3

Ten Dark Women

19615.8

World Famous Fairy Tale Series

19757.0

Journey Into Solitude

19726.9

Winter Days

20036.0

Under the Same Moon

20056.0

Mothers

19676.4

Love and Greed

19647.8

Dora-heita

20005.4

Sugata Sanshiro

197710.0

Edo Murasaki Limited Express

1995

I Lived, But...

19836.8

Towering Waves

19601.0

The Time of Reckoning

19687.5

A Flame at the Pier

19626.1

The School of Flesh

19655.8

Crane

19886.8

Rennyo and His Mother

19819.0

Fujiko Fujio's Dream Camera

19866.0

Sapporo Winter Olympics

19726.9

Chloe

20017.0

Being Two Isn't Easy

19626.9

The Hall of the Crying Deer

19869.0

Night Mist Makes Women Cry

19628.0

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

19716.4

Shinsengumi

20009.0

A Woman Called En

1971

Tracing Jake

20048.0

A Tale of Young Elopement

19879.0

Vengeance for Sale

20026.8

The Twilight Story

19608.5

Temptation on Glamour Island

19597.0

The Diplomat's Mansion

19618.0

Seito shokun!

19849.0

Japanese Criminal Records: Kurume Chapter

1982

Human Zoo

19623.7

Let's Gotokuji

19879.0

Homicide

1964

The Shogun's Vault I

1981

Challenge to Live

19619.0

Blackmail

1958

The Book of the Dead

20056.5

Love at the Fogged Harbor

1962

Misandry

19648.0

Five Ronins

1963

Dark Hunter

1994

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

1980

Yaneura no Onna-tachi

1956

At the Side of the Bridge 3

1963

Love Song of the Old Capital

1997

Hello, Baby

196410.0

Where did Sharaku go?

19688.0

Love

19645.2

Flame of Father and Son

1981

Gomez's Name is Gomez

1967

Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka

1985

The Man Who Killed Six Women

1965