Kyôko Kishida
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyōko Kishida, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: April 29, 1930
Place of Birth: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Azumaya
as Narrator (voice)
as Kōkin Miyagawa
as Sakura
as Narrator
as Yagita's mother
as Narrator (voice)
as Otome
as Cleaning Lady
as Lady of the Sister Wind
as Matsushima
as Mizukoshi Ayako
as Taeko Kano
as Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi
as School Master
as Zankurô's mother
as Ohama
as 小森晶乃
as Old geisha Miyako (cameo)
as Natsu Mizukami
as Maid-In-Waiting
as Narration (voice)
as Wife
as Kichibi
as Kōgō or Empress
as Narrator
as Benten
as Nobuko Kitashiro
as Kuginukiya
as Ohba, Head Nurse
as Fusako Ishimoto
as Kie Azuma
as 真之助の母・香木艶子
as Self
as Kimie Hasenuma
as Mayumi
as Grandmother (voice)
as Shima Ikegata
as Ôishi Riku
as Naoko Anekoji
as Ochika
as Kimiyo Tarumi
as Koto Teacher
as Narrator (voice)
as Ayabe Takako
as Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy)
as Mama, the girl's mother
as Narrator (voice)
as Moomin (voice)
as Sanko Otori
as Yodo-dono
as Sanko Otori
as Akie
as Moomin (voice)
as Miriam / Jaris (voice)
as Oharu Tsutaya
as Sonoko
as (voice)
as Nurse
as Mikie Shima
as Kaoyo
as Sonoko Kakiuchi
as Fumiko Ando
as Takazawa Mitsue
as Ms Okiyama
as Yoko Saijyo
as The Woman
as Aguri
as Lady Hagi
as Inone
as Madame Kaoru
as Chiyo's Friend
as Reiko
as Inoko's wife
as Sayoko Goto
as Ryûko
as Sally
as Mrs. Tanuma
as Sumiko Tsuboi
as Nagasaki Detective
as Sakie
as Self