Kyôko Kishida

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, 1930-04-29

Died: 2006-12-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water		61
2	1956	Yaneura no Onna-tachi		0
3	1958	The Lowest Man	Sakie	0
4	1958	The Days of Evil Women		0
5	1959	Temptation on Glamour Island	Sumiko Tsuboi	60
6	1960	The Twilight Story		80
7	1960	Her Brother	Mrs. Tanuma	69
8	1960	Get 'em All	Sally	60
9	1961	The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer	Ryûko	84
10	1961	The Harbor Lights		50
11	1961	Ten Dark Women	Sayoko Goto	59
12	1961	Challenge to Live		0
13	1962	Night Mist Makes Women Cry	Yoshiko Hoshino	0
14	1962	Love at the Fogged Harbor		0
15	1962	The Broken Commandment	Inoko's wife	66
16	1962	Human Zoo		30
17	1962	A Flame at the Pier	Reiko	60
18	1962	Being Two Isn't Easy	Chiyo's Friend	68
19	1962	An Autumn Afternoon	Madame Kaoru	79
20	1962	Ninja, A Band of Assassins	Inone	64
21	1963	At the Side of the Bridge 3		0
22	1963	Five Ronins		0
23	1963	Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai	Lady Hagi	70
24	1964	Woman in the Dunes	The Woman	82
25	1964	Love and Greed	Yoko Saijyo	65
26	1964	こんにちは赤ちゃん	Ms Okiyama	100
27	1964	Brand of Evil	Takazawa Mitsue	65
28	1964	Homicide	Fumiko Ando	0
29	1964	Manji	Sonoko Kakiuchi	65
30	1964	Love		49
31	1965	The School of Flesh		20
32	1965	六人の女を殺した男		0
33	1965	Conquest	Kaoyo	50
34	1966	Warm Current	Mikie Shima	0
35	1966	The Face of Another	Nurse	78
36	1967	Mothers	(voice)	64
37	1967	Gomez's Name is Gomez	Sonoko	0
38	1967	The Shogun and His Mistresses	Urao	20
39	1968	The Time of Reckoning		70
40	1968	Where did Sharaku go?	Oharu Tsutaya	0
41	1969	A Thousand and One Nights	Miriam / Jaris (voice)	68
42	1969	Vixen	Akie	62
43	1970	Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny	Sanko Otori	66
44	1971	A Woman Called En		0
45	1971	Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow	Sanko Otori	58
46	1972	Sapporo Winter Olympics	Narrator (voice)	67
47	1972	Journey Into Solitude	Mama, the girl's mother	65
48	1974	Prophecies of Nostradamus	Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy)	60
49	1975	World Famous Fairy Tale Series	Narrator	70
50	1976	The Inugami Family	Koto Teacher	69
51	1977	Utamaro's World	Ochika	56
52	1977	Curse of the Dog God	Kimiyo Tarumi	61
53	1977	Japanese Godfather: Ambition	Naoko Anekoji	88
54	1977	Sugata Sanshiro	Omon	0
55	1979	Nichiren		0
56	1979	Unico - Black Cloud and White Feather		58
57	1979	The Inferno	Shima Ikegata	66
58	1980	Toward the Terra	Grandmother (voice)	61
59	1980	The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail		0
60	1981	The Shogun's Vault I		0
61	1981	Rennyo and His Mother		0
62	1981	Flame of Father and Son		0
63	1982	Lullaby of Death	Mayumi	50
64	1983	Detective Story	Kimie Hasenuma	62
65	1983	I Lived, But...	Self	65
66	1984	Seito shokun!		0
67	1985	Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka		0
68	1985	Spring Bell	Fusako Ishimoto	60
69	1986	Fujiko Fujio no Yume Camera		0
70	1986	The Hall of the Crying Deer		0
71	1986	The Sea and Poison	Ohba, Head Nurse	69
72	1987	Actress	Kuginukiya	70
73	1987	A Tale of Young Elopement	Nobuko Kitashiro	0
74	1987	Let's Gotokuji		0
75	1987	Sure Death 4	Benten	66
76	1987	Tokyo Bordello	Narrator	53
77	1987	Princess from the Moon	Kōgō or Empress	64
78	1988	Crane	Kichibi	68
79	1989	Rikyu	Wife	75
80	1990	Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty	Narration (voice)	62
81	1990	Heaven and Earth	Maid-In-Waiting	62
82	1991	Noh Mask Murders	Natsu Mizukami	56
83	1991	Zodiac Killers	Old geisha Miyako (cameo)	46
84	1993	Fusa		58
85	1994	Dark hunter	Ohama	0
86	1996	Haunted School 2	School Master	75
87	1996	The 8-Tomb Village	Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi	57
88	1997	To Love	Taeko Kano	55
89	2000	Shinsengumi		0
90	2000	Dora-heita	Lady of the Sister Wind	51
91	2001	Chloe	Cleaning Lady	60
92	2001	Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji		60
93	2002	Vengeance for Sale	Otome	64
94	2003	Winter Days		59
95	2004	Tracing Jake		70
96	2004	Onna no naka no futatsu no kao		10
97	2004	Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari		0
98	2005	The Book of the Dead	Narrator (voice)	62
99	2005	Spring Snow		40
100	2005	Under the Same Moon	Azumaya	40
101	2006	Wool 100%	Ume	59

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
2	1964	Akō Rōshi	Aguri	75
3	1967	ゴメスの名はゴメス		0
4	1969	Moomin	Moomin (voice)	65
5	1971	Haru no Sakamichi	Yodo-dono	0
6	1972	New Moomin	Moomin (voice)	55
7	1973	Onna: Sono Ai no Series		0
8	1974	Wounded Angels	Ayabe Takako	100
9	1976	Akai Unmei		0
10	1979	The 47 Ronins of Ako	Ôishi Riku	0
11	1980	A-Un		0
12	1980	Zoku zoku jiken		0
13	1984	Romansu	真之助の母・香木艶子	20
14	1985	Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka	Kie Azuma	0
15	1990	Tales of the Bizarre		78
16	1990	道連れ		0
17	1993	Kagi-shi		0
18	1993	Karin	小森晶乃	0
19	1995	Gokenin Zankuro	Zankurô's mother	80
20	1997	Forbidden Fruit	Mizukoshi Ayako	0
21	1998	Tokugawa Yoshinobu	Matsushima	0
22	1999	Good News		100
23	1999	Maikosan wa Meitantei!		0
24	2002	Nurseman		60
25	2002	The Private Detective Mike		84
26	2002	Princess Tutu	Narrator (voice)	81
27	2002	HR	Yagita's mother	50
28	2002	AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo		79
29	2002	Lone Wolf and Cub	Narrator	68
30	2003	Animal Doctor		0
31	2004	Bewitched In Tokyo	Sakura	0
32	2004	稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ	Kōkin Miyagawa	90
33	2004	Joi - Yu		0
34	2004	女の中の二つの顔		0
35	2005	Natsumeke no Shokutaku		0
36	2005	Love Song		0

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