Kyōko Kishida

Kyōko Kishida
was a Japanese actress and voice actress.
Biography
Kishida was born in Tokyo in 1930 as the second daughter of playwright Kunio Kishida. She joined the Bungakuza theatre company in 1950, making her breakthrough in Yukio Mishima's stage production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. In 1963, she left the Bungakuza and joined the Kumo Theatre Company.
Kishida gave her film debut with a small role in Tadashi Imai's An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953). Her first leading film roles were in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes and Yasuzō Masumura's Manji (both 1964). Other film credits include Kon Ichikawa's Her Brother (1960), Yasujirō Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), Kaneto Shindō's Akuto (1965), Teshigahara's The Face of Another (1966) and Rikyu (1989), and Isao Yukisada's Spring Snow (2005), based on the Mishima novel of the same name.
She also appeared on television in various Taiga dramas such as Akō Rōshi (1979) and Takeda Shingen (1988), and performed voiceovers for anime series like Moomin (1969–70), Vampire Princess Miyu (1988) and Princess Tutu (2002–03).
Kishida was married to the actor Noboru Nakaya from 1954 to 1978. She died on 17 December 2006 in Tokyo from respiratory failure caused by a brain tumor.
Selected filmography
Films
1950s
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
Futeki na Otoko (1958), Sakie
Akujo no Kisetsu (1958), Yoshimi Hayakawa
Gurama-to no Yuwaku (1959), Sumiko Tsuboi
Anyakōro (1959), prostitute
1960s
The Twilight Story (1960), Teruko
Nami no Tō (1960)
Her Brother (1960), Mrs. Tanuma
Minagoroshi no Uta yori Kenju-yo Saraba! (1960), Sally
The Human Condition (1961), Ryuko
Are ga Minato no Hi da (1961)
Ten Dark Women (1961), Sayoko Goto
Tokyo Yawa (1961), Ranko
Ai to Honoho to (1961), geisha
Onna wa Yogiri ni Nureteiru (1962), Yoshiko Hoshino
The Outcast (1962), Inoko's wife
Namida o Shishi no Tategami ni (1962), Reiko Matsudaira
An Autumn Afternoon (1962), 'Kaoru' no Madame
Watashi wa Nisai (1962), Chiyo's Friend
Shinobi no Mono (1962), Inone
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963), Lady Hagi
Otoko Girai (1964), Utako Takamura
Woman in the Dunes (1964), the woman
Le mari était là (Otto ga Mita 'Onna no Kobako' yori) (1964), Yoko Saijyo
Konnichiwa Akachan (1964), Ms Okiyama
Kigeki Yōki-na Mibōjin (1964)
Aku no Monsho (1964), Mitsue Takazawa
Manji (1964), Sonoko Kakiuchi
Nikutai no Gakko (1965), Taeko Asano
Akuto (1965), Kanze
Danryu (1966), Mikie Shima
The Face of Another (1966), Infirmière
Ō-oku Maruhi Monogatari (1967)
Fushin no Toki (1968), Chizuko Mochizuki
Senya Ichiya Monogatari (1969) (voice)
Jotai (1969), Akie
1970s
Men and War, Part I (1970)
Moomin (1971), Moomin (voice)
En to iu Onna (1971)
Men and War, Part II (1971)
Tabi no Omosa (1972), Mama, the girl's mother
Nosutoradamusu no Daiyogen (1974), Narrator
Are wa Dare? (1976), voice
Inugami-ke no Ichizoku (1976), Koto Teacher
Utamaro: Yume to Shiriseba (1977), Ochika
Nippon no Don: Yabohen (1977), Naoko Anekoji
Sugata Sanshiro (1977), Omon
Risu no Panashi (1978), voice
Inubue (1978), narrator
Jigoku (1979), Shima Ikegata
1980s
Terra e... (1980), grandmother (voice)
Rennyo to sono Haha (1981) (voice)
Konoko no Nanatsu no Oiwai ni (1982), Mayumi
Detective Story (1983), Kimie Hasenuma
Seito Shokun! (1984), Michiko Hokujo
Haru no Kane (1985), Fusako Ishimoto
Rokumeikan (1986), Marchioness Takako
The Sea and Poison (1986), Oba, Head Nurse
Eiga Joyu (1987), Kuginukiya
Seishun Kakeochi-hen (1987)
Let's Gōtoku-ji! (1987), Miyabi Gōtokuji
Hissatsu 4: Urami Harashimasu (1987), Benten - head of the assassins
Yoshiwara Enjo (1987), Narrator
Princess from the Moon (1987), Kougo
Tsuru (1988), Kichibi
Rikyu (1989), His wife end
1990s
Ibara-hime matawa Nemuri hime (1990), voice
Ten to Chi to (1991), Maid-In-Waiting
Tenkawa Densetsu Satsujin Jiken (1991), Natsu Minakami
Zodiac Killer (Ji dao zhui zong) (1991), Geisha Miyako
Fusa (1993), Mura
Gakkō no Kaidan 2 (1996), School Master
Yatsuhaka-mura (1996), Kotake and Koume Tajimi
Aisuru (1997), Taeko Kano
2000s
Shinsengumi (2000), Komano (voice)
Dora-heita (2000)
Ningen no Kuzu (2001)
Kuroe (2001), Cleaning Lady
Sukedachi-ya Sukeroku (2001), Otome
Sennen no koi - Hikaru Genji monogatari (2001), Gen no Naishi no Suke
Winter Days (2003), Yasui (voice)
The Book of the Dead (2005), narrator
Haru no Yuki (2005), Kiyoaki's grandmother
Onaji Tsuki o Miteiru (2005)
Wool 100% (2006), Ume
Television drama
Haru no Sakamichi (1971), Yodo-dono
Akō Rōshi (1979), Riku
A un (1980), Kimiko Kadokura
Shin Jiken: Waga Uta wa Hana Ichimonme (1981), Shizuko Kosaka
Rirakkusu: Matsubara Katsumi no Nichijō Seikatsu (1982), Mrs. Udagawa
Mazakon-keiji no Kikenbo (1983)
Takeda Shingen (1988), Jukei-ni
Ōinaru Genei (1989), Katsuko Tojyo/Haru Yamafuji
Yonimo Kimyō na Monogatari (1990)
Karin (1993)
Hacchōbori Torimono-banashi (1993)
Gokenin Zankurō (1995), Zankurō's mother
Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1998), Matsushima
Yakusoku (1999), Mom
Jiko (2001), mother
Teradake no Hanayome (2001)
Purinsesu Chuchu (2002), narration
Akachan o Sagase (2003)
Dōbutsu no Oisha-san (2003), Taka Nishine
Boku no Mahōtsukai (2003)
Yuga na Akuji 2: Kyōto Kadō Iemoto Renzoku Satsujin (2003) TV
Onna no Naka no Futatsu no Kao (2004), Mrs. Takigawa
Lone Wolf and Cub (2004), narrator
Natsumeke no Shokutaku (2005), Kiyo
Television animation
Moomin (1969), Moomin
Moomin (1972), Moomin
Awards and honours
1962: Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for An Autumn Afternoon, The Outcast and Shinobi no mono
1962: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress for An Autumn Afternoon and The Outcast
1994: Medal with Purple Ribbon
1996: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gakkō no kaidan 2 and Yatsuhaka-mura
1999: Kinokuniya Theater Award
References
External links
1930 births
2006 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Japan
Deaths from brain tumor
Deaths from respiratory failure
Japanese film actresses
Japanese television actresses
Japanese voice actresses
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Voice actresses from Tokyo
Japanese writers
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses