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KyÅko 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 ÅŒoku series on television. In the series Gokenin ZankurÅ, 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 YasujirÅ 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 KÅbÅ 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.
KyÅko Kishida died on December 17, 2006 in Tokyo from respiratory failure caused by a brain tumor.
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KyÅko Kishida Biography / Wiki
| Name | KyÅko Kishida |
| Also Know | Kyoko Kishida, 岸田 今日å, 岸田今日å |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Suginami, Tokyo, Japan |
| Date of Birth | 1930-04-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday | 2006-12-17 |
KyÅko Kishida Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Book of the Dead | Narrator (voice) | 2005-07-01 | A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sut… |
| Wool 100% | Ume | 2006-01-01 | A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl knitt… |
| Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty | Narration (voice) | 1990-08-10 | On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of the Queen’s secret, early love. The … |
| Mothers | (voice) | 1967-01-01 | Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children…. |
| Human Zoo | 1962-09-14 | A montage of scenes that describe how people can be as bad as animals…. | |
| Woman in the Dunes | The Woman | 1964-02-15 | An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village…. |
| Manji | Sonoko Kakiuchi | 1964-07-25 | The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture…. |
| A Thousand and One Nights | Miriam/Jaris | 1969-06-14 | Beautifully constructed, 1001 Nights stays true to the lush and mysterious backdrop of the well known and age old story. Tezuka remolds the story into… |
| Conquest | Kaoyo | 1965-11-21 | Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to … |
| Seito shokun! | 1984-12-22 | Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji… | |
| Love | 1964-12-31 | A short experimental anime about a woman desperately in love. Made by Yoji Kuri, a well-known Japanese indie animator…. | |
| The Inferno | Shima Ikegata | 1979-06-03 | Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother’s grief from beyond the grave…. |
| Journey Into Solitude | Mama, the girl’s mother | 1972-10-28 | Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean. After meeting with a theatre group she falls sic… |
| Vixen | Akie | 1969-10-18 | Michi’s first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swi… |
| Brand of Evil | 1964-05-29 | A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his c… | |
| Lullaby of Death | 1982-10-09 | Following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them…. | |
| The Harbor Lights | 1961-02-26 | … | |
| The Shogun and His Mistresses | Urao | 1967-07-30 | Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun’s harem (o-oku) during the Edo period…. |
| The Lowest Man | Sakie | 1958-09-07 | A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kil… |
| Winter Days | 2003-11-27 | Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by KihachirÅ Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collect… | |
| Where did Sharaku go? | Oharu Tsutaya | 1968-08-22 | Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, “Where has Sharaku gone?” He begins to figure out… |
| The Face of Another | Nurse | 1966-07-15 | A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality…. |
| Rikyu | His wife | 1989-09-15 | Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes… |
| Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai | Lady Hagi | 1963-04-28 | After a salary-man’s fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice th… |
| Zodiac Killers | Old geisha Miyako (cameo) | 1991-07-20 | Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study a… |
| The Sea and Poison | Ohba, Head Nurse | 1986-10-17 | Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American ai… |
| Rennyo and His Mother | 1981-10-07 | Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortun… | |
| Detective Story | Kimie Hasenuma | 1983-07-16 | Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who’s hired by Naomi’s father to bodygard h… |
| The Time of Reckoning | 1968-06-29 | “The Time of Reckoning” transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving… | |
| Ten Black Women | Sayoko Goto | 1961-05-03 | Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long … |
| Haunted School 2 | School Master | 1996-07-20 | Sequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it’s about a group of youngsters that get stuck in a haunte… |
| Spring Bell | Fusako Ishimoto | 1985-11-09 | Narumi Rokuheita and his wife Noriko spend their lives separated. Soon they start looking for love elsewhere…. |
| Hello, Baby! | 1964-03-20 | … | |
| Her Brother | Mrs. Tanuma | 1960-11-01 | Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a… |
| A Flame at the Pier | Reiko | 1962-09-30 | Takashi Fujiki stars as a rebel in this drama about life on the Yokohama waterfront by New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. The rebel works as an erran… |
| Love and Greed | Yoko Saijyo | 1964-02-24 | Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail…. |
| The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail | 1980-11-15 | Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima…. | |
| Love of a Thousand Years – Story of Genji | 2001-12-15 | Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. He… | |
| Love at the Fogged Harbor | 1962-02-21 | A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko…. | |
| A Tale of Young Elopement | Nobuko Kitashiro | 1987-02-07 | A 30-year-old man’s life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man…. |
| Japanese Godfather: Ambition | 1977-10-29 | An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association…. | |
| A Woman Called En | 1971-05-29 | Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is r… | |
| Warm Current | Mikie Shima | 1966-04-29 | … |
| Yaneura no Onna-tachi | 1956-05-14 | … | |
| Dark hunter | Ohama | 1994-04-01 | Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name o… |
| Being Two Isn’t Easy | Chiyo’s Friend | 1962-11-18 | The days leading up to a toddler’s second birthday are seen alternately from the child’s point of view as well as that of his parents…. |
| Fusa | 1993-04-01 | Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory…. | |
| Night Mist Makes Women Cry | Yoshiko Hoshino | 1962-02-04 | A love melodrama…. |
| Crane | Kichibi | 1988-05-21 | Based on the folk tales “Repayment from a crane”. One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will be… |
| Tokyo Bordello | Narrator | 1987-06-13 | A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the br… |
| Ninja, a Band of Assassins | Inone | 1962-12-01 | Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to… |
| The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer | Ryûko | 1961-01-28 | After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life,… |
| The Broken Commandment | Inoko’s wife | 1962-04-06 | Ushimatsu’s father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such … |
| Vengeance for Sale | Otome | 2002-02-16 | In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Suker… |
| Under the Same Moon | Azumaya | 2005-11-19 | When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi’s condition, Tetsuy… |
| The Days of Evil Women | 1958-11-30 | The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances…. | |
| Five Ronins | 1963-03-03 | The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal…. | |
| To Love | Taeko Kano | 1997-10-04 | Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsuto… |
| Chloe | Cleaning Lady | 2001-06-15 | Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls il… |
| Get ’em All | Sally | 1960-11-29 | Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one…. |
| Nichiren | 1979-01-01 | An epic drama about Nichiren’s life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan. Nichiren tau… | |
| Let’s Gotokuji | 1987-04-11 | The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this family. While working at the house, she finds a new fo… | |
| The 8-Tomb Village | Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi | 1996-10-26 | A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later…. |
| Onna no naka no futatsu no kao | 2004-08-22 | 2004 film… | |
| Shinsengumi | 2000-01-15 | Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force – the Shinsengumi – at the end of the Edo period…. | |
| The Hall of the Crying Deer | 1986-09-20 | … | |
| The Twilight Story | 1960-08-28 | In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at… | |
| An Autumn Afternoon | ‘Kaoru’ no Madame | 1962-11-18 | Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest… |
| Actress | Kuginukiya | 1987-01-17 | Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi…. |
| Sugata Sanshiro | Omon | 1977-10-29 | The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means o… |
| Challenge to Live | 1961-06-17 | An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during th… | |
| Prophecies of Nostradamus | Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy) | 1974-07-13 | Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobo… |
| Temptation on Glamour Island | Sumiko Tsuboi | 1959-01-15 | Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of Worl… |
| Dora-heita | 2000-05-13 | A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents’ own misperceptions a… | |
| Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari | 2004-11-01 | Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama is a biography of her personal life…. | |
| Curse | Kimiyo Tarumi | 1977-06-18 | In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for ura… |
| Toward the Terra | Grandmother (voice) | 1980-04-26 | A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth…. |
| Sure Death 4 | Benten | 1987-06-06 | Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in t… |
| The Inugamis | Kakin Miyakawa | 1976-10-16 | When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pittin… |
| An Inlet of Muddy Water | 1953-11-23 | Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the t… | |
| Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow | 1971-06-12 | Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan’s invasion of … | |
| Heaven and Earth | Maid-In-Waiting | 1990-11-24 | Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across t… |
| Noh Mask Murders | Natsu Mizukami | 1991-03-15 | The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater… |
| Utamaro’s World | Ochika | 1977-02-20 | Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-… |
| Snowy Love Fall in Spring | 2005-10-09 | Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio’s Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngster… | |
| I Lived, But… | Self | 1983-10-29 | An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both i… |
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