Kyôko Kishida

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1930-04-29 (76 years old)

Deathday

2006-12-17

Place of Birth

Suginami, Tokyo, Japan

Kyôko Kishida

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 p...

Acting

2005

The Book of the Dead

as Narrator (voice)

1990

Heaven and Earth

as Maid-In-Waiting

1989

Rikyu

as Wife

2006

Wool 100%

as Ume

1964

Woman in the Dunes

as The Woman

1994

Dark hunter

as Ohama

1997

To Love

as Taeko Kano

1964

Manji

as Sonoko Kakiuchi

1977

1985

Spring Bell

as Fusako Ishimoto

1977

Curse of the Dog God

as Kimiyo Tarumi

1960

Her Brother

as Mrs. Tanuma

1962

The Broken Commandment

as Inoko's wife

2001

Chloe

as Cleaning Lady

1990

1965

Conquest

as Kaoyo

1979

The Inferno

as Shima Ikegata

2002

1964

Homicide

as Fumiko Ando

1972

Journey Into Solitude

as Mama, the girl's mother

1968

Where did Sharaku go?

as Oharu Tsutaya

1972

Sapporo Winter Olympics

as Narrator (voice)

1969

A Thousand and One Nights

as Miriam / Jaris (voice)

2000

Dora-heita

as Lady of the Sister Wind

1991

Zodiac Killers

as Old geisha Miyako (cameo)

2005

1986

The Sea and Poison

as Ohba, Head Nurse

1996

The 8-Tomb Village

as Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi

1987

Sure Death 4

as Benten

1983

Detective Story

as Kimie Hasenuma

1969

Vixen

as Akie

1964

Love and Greed

as Yoko Saijyo

1961

Ten Dark Women

as Sayoko Goto

1967

Mothers

as (voice)

1962

Being Two Isn't Easy

as Chiyo's Friend

1996

Haunted School 2

as School Master

1964

Brand of Evil

as Takazawa Mitsue

1964

Hello, Baby

as Ms Okiyama

1982

1976

The Inugami Family

as Koto Teacher

1983

1960

Get 'em All

as Sally

1987

A Tale of Young Elopement

as Nobuko Kitashiro

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

as Madame Kaoru

1980

Toward the Terra

as Grandmother (voice)

1958

1993

1977

1962

Night Mist Makes Women Cry

as Yoshiko Hoshino

1988

Crane

as Kichibi

1974

Prophecies of Nostradamus

as Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy)

1991

Noh Mask Murders

as Natsu Mizukami

1987

Actress

as Kuginukiya

1977

1964

1959

1987

Tokyo Bordello

as Narrator

1966

Warm Current

as Mikie Shima

1987

Princess from the Moon

as Kōgō or Empress

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