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 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.
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Acting (99 movies)
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962
The Book of the Dead
2005
Spring Snow
2005
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
Heaven and Earth
1990
The Face of Another
1966
Rikyu
1989
Woman in the Dunes
1964
Dark hunter
1994
To Love
1997
Manji
1964
Utamaro's World
1977
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
Spring Bell
1985
Nichiren
1979
Curse of the Dog God
1977
Her Brother
1960
The Broken Commandment
1962
Chloe
2001
The Shogun's Vault I
1981
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1990
Conquest
1965
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
1985
Tracing Jake
2004
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970
The Inferno
1979
Vengeance for Sale
2002
Homicide
1964
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Journey Into Solitude
1972
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1971
Where did Sharaku go?
1968
Sapporo Winter Olympics
1972
A Thousand and One Nights
1969
The School of Flesh
1965
Dora-heita
2000
Zodiac Killers
1991
Under the Same Moon
2005
The Sea and Poison
1986
The 8-Tomb Village
1996
Sure Death 4
1987
A Flame at the Pier
1962
Rennyo and His Mother
1981
Detective Story
1983
Vixen
1969
Love and Greed
1964
Flame of Father and Son
1981
The Time of Reckoning
1968
The Twilight Story
1960
Ten Dark Women
1961
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001
World Famous Fairy Tale Series
1975
Let's Gotokuji
1987
Mothers
1967
Being Two Isn't Easy
1962
Unico: Black Cloud and White Feathers
1979
Haunted School 2
1996
Brand of Evil
1964
Hello, Baby
1964
Lullaby of Death
1982
The Inugami Family
1976
Love at the Fogged Harbor
1962
I Lived, But...
1983
Seito shokun!
1984
The Harbor Lights
1961
The Days of Evil Women
1958
Get 'em All
1960
Challenge to Live
1961
Five Ronins
1963
The Shogun and His Mistresses
1967
A Tale of Young Elopement
1987
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Toward the Terra
1980
The Lowest Man
1958
Fusa
1995
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1977
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
Crane
1988
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Noh Mask Murders
1991
Actress
1987
Winter Days
2003
A Woman Called En
1971
Temptation on Glamour Island
1959
Tokyo Bordello
1987
Shinsengumi
2000
Warm Current
1966
The Hall of the Crying Deer
1986
Yaneura no Onna-tachi
1956
Fujiko Fujio no Yume Camera
1986
六人の女を殺した男
1965
At the Side of the Bridge 3
1963
Gomez's Name is Gomez
1967
Princess from the Moon
1987
Misandry
1964
Thumbelina
1978
The Human Condition
1961
Yurakucho 0 Street
1958
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