Kyôko Kishida

Acting · 1.2 popularity

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

An Autumn Afternoon

19627.9

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

19618.4

The Face of Another

19667.7

The Harbor Lights

19616.3

The Days of Evil Women

19587.0

Rikyu

19897.5

Onna no naka no futatsu no kao

20041.0

Heaven and Earth

19906.2

The Lowest Man

19589.0

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

19906.4

The Inferno

19796.9

Tokyo Bordello

19875.6

Her Brother

19607.1

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

20015.9

Actress

19877.7

Wool 100%

20065.9

Prophecies of Nostradamus

19745.9

Just Barely

1960

The Inugami Family

19767.0

Manji

19646.5

The Shogun and His Mistresses

19674.7

Toward the Terra

19806.3

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

19706.8

Warm Current

1966

Conquest

19656.0

Spring Snow

20056.5

Vixen

19696.7

Princess from the Moon

19876.5

Curse of the Dog God

19775.6

Thumbelina

19786.3

Lullaby of Death

19826.3

Zodiac Killers

19914.7

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

19777.7

Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari

2004

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

19636.7

The 8-Tomb Village

19966.8

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

19626.4

The Broken Commandment

19626.8

The Sea and Poison

19867.1

Utamaro's World

19775.6

Unico: Black Cloud and White Feathers

19796.9

Nichiren

19797.0

Haunted School 2

19967.3

Detective Story

19836.7

Winter Days

20036.0

Ten Dark Women

19615.8

Sure Death 4

19877.0

I Lived, But...

19836.8

Sugata Sanshiro

197710.0

Get 'em All

19607.0

World Famous Fairy Tale Series

19757.0

Dora-heita

20005.4

Under the Same Moon

20056.0

Yurakucho 0 Street

1958

Journey Into Solitude

19726.9

Chloe

20017.0

To Love

19976.7

Love and Greed

19647.8

Brand of Evil

19647.7

Noh Mask Murders

19916.3

Towering Waves

19601.0

Edo Murasaki Limited Express

1995

Mothers

19676.4

Being Two Isn't Easy

19626.9

Rennyo and His Mother

19819.0

Crane

19886.8

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

19716.4

Love

19645.2

A Flame at the Pier

19626.1

The Time of Reckoning

19687.5

Vengeance for Sale

20026.8

Fujiko Fujio's Dream Camera

19866.0

Fusa

19955.9

Tracing Jake

20048.0

Love at the Fogged Harbor

1962

The Hall of the Crying Deer

19869.0

The Diplomat's Mansion

19618.0

The Book of the Dead

20056.5

The Man Who Killed Six Women

1965

The Twilight Story

19608.5

Challenge to Live

19619.0

Homicide

1964

At the Side of the Bridge 3

1963

The School of Flesh

19655.8

Dark Hunter

1994

Temptation on Glamour Island

19597.0

A Tale of Young Elopement

19879.0

A Woman Called En

1971

Hello, Baby

196410.0

Sapporo Winter Olympics

19726.9

Night Mist Makes Women Cry

19628.0

Japanese Criminal Records: Kurume Chapter

1982

Shinsengumi

20009.0

Where did Sharaku go?

19688.0

Human Zoo

19623.7

Seito shokun!

19849.0

Five Ronins

1963

Blackmail

1958

Gomez's Name is Gomez

1967

Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka

1985

Yaneura no Onna-tachi

1956

Love Song of the Old Capital

1997

Misandry

19648.0

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

1980

Let's Gotokuji

19879.0

Flame of Father and Son

1981

The Shogun's Vault I

1981