Kyōko Kagawa

Kyōko Kagawa 香川 京子 Kagawa Kyōko born 5 December 1931 is a Japanese actress She has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawas The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low Yasujiro Ozus Tokyo Story and Kenji Mizoguchis Sansho the Bailiff She won the New Face Nomination sponsored by the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper out of about 6000 applicants and joined Shintoho She was also taking entrance exams for a regular company at the same time and her final interview and the final exam for the New Faces camera test overlapped but with her mothers advice she decided to pursue acting After appearing in Red Beard in 1965 she gave birth to a child and accompanied her husband to New York where he was posted overseas leaving the film industry for about three years She returned to Japan in 1968 As film began to decline she expanded her field of work to include television dramas and stage productions She was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1998 and the Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Rosette in 2004