Home / Discover / People

Kyōko 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.


Aliases
  • Kishida Kyoko
  • Kishida Kyouko
  • Kyouko Kishida
English 日本語
  • Born In Toyotama, Tokyo, Japan
  • Born April 29, 1930
  • Died December 17, 2006
  • Gender Female
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Race East Asian or Pacific Islander
  • Created November 13, 2019 by
    Administrator admin
  • Modified July 17, 2024 by
    pthw199 mod

Namida o shishi no tategami ni

1962
as Reiko Matsudaira

御家人斬九郎

1995
as 松平麻佐女

Tabi no omosa

1972
as Mama, the girl's mother

Aku no monsho

1964
as Mitsue Takazawa

動物のお医者さん

2003
as Taka Nishine

Ai to honoho to

1961
as Geisha

Seito shokun!

1984
as Michiko Hokujo

忍びの者

1962
as イノネ

Akujo no kisetsu

1958
as Yoshimi Hayakawa

Tsuru

1988
as Kichibi

Watashi wa nisai

1962
as Chiyo's Friend

Kuroi jûnin no onna

1961
as Sayoko Gotô

Shisha no sho

2005
as Narrator

不機嫌な果実

1997
as Mizukoshi Ayako

Wool 100%

2006
as Ume

Screen Test #4

1966
as Kyôko Kishida

Haru no kane

1985
as Fusako Ishimoto

傷だらけの天使

1974
as 綾部貴子

Rikyu

1989
as His wife

Bokutô kitan

1960
as Teruko

Night Mist Makes Women Cry

1962
as Yoshiko Hoshino

Gurama-to no yuwaku

1959
as Sumiko Tsuboi

Fushin no toki

1968
as Chizuko Mochizuki

Yatsuhaka-mura

1996
as Kotake and Koume Tajimi (plays 2 parts)

春の雪

2005
as 松枝 清顕の祖母

Let's Gotokuji

1987
as Miyabi Gôtokuji

Nippon no Don: Yabohen

1977
as Naoko Anekoji

Minamoto Yoshitsune

1991
as Old Woman

探偵物語

1983
as 長谷沼君江

Writer

Movie Ibara hime matawa Nemuri hime 1990