Kyôko Kishida profile
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Kyôko Kishida

29th April 1930 Suginami, Tokyo, Japan Acting

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.

108 Movies 39 TV Shows 147 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Chloe poster
Chloe 15th June 2001 as Cleaning Lady
To Love poster
To Love 4th October 1997 as Taeko Kano
Rikyu poster
Rikyu 15th September 1989 as Wife
Crane poster
Crane 21st May 1988 as Kichibi
Actress poster
Actress 17th January 1987 as Kuginukiya
Thumbelina poster
Thumbelina 18th March 1978 as Narrator / Gekoo (voice)
Vixen poster
Vixen 18th October 1969 as Akie
Love poster
Love 31st December 1964
Manji poster
Manji 25th July 1964 as Sonoko Kakiuchi
HR poster
HR 9th October 2002 as Yagita's mother
Karin poster
Karin 4th October 1993 as 小森晶乃
Romansu poster
Romansu 2nd April 1984 as 真之助の母・香木艶子
Moomin poster
Moomin 5th October 1969 as Moomin (voice)