Kyōko Kishida (岸田 今日子, Kishida Kyōko; 29 April 1930 – 17 December 2006) was a Japanese actress and writer.
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Biography
Kishida was born in the Tokyo Prefecture as the second daughter of playwright Kunio Kishida. Her older sister was the children's author and poet Eriko Kishida and she was cousins with actor Shin Kishida. She joined the Bungakuza theatre company in 1950, making her breakthrough in Yukio Mishima's stage production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. In 1963, she left the Bungakuza and joined the Kumo Theatre Company.
Kishida gave her film debut with a small role in Tadashi Imai's An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953). Her first leading film roles were in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes and Yasuzō Masumura's Manji (both 1964). Other film credits include Kon Ichikawa's Her Brother (1960), Yasujirō Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon (1962), Kaneto Shindō's Akuto (1965), Teshigahara's The Face of Another (1966) and Rikyu (1989), and Isao Yukisada's Spring Snow (2005), based on the Mishima novel of the same name.
She also appeared on television in various Taiga dramas such as Akō Rōshi (1979) and Takeda Shingen (1988), and performed voiceovers for anime series like Moomin (1969–70), Vampire Princess Miyu (1988) and Princess Tutu (2002–03).
Kishida was married to the actor Noboru Nakaya from 1954 to 1978. She died on 17 December 2006 in Tokyo from respiratory failure caused by a brain tumor.
Selected filmography
Films
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Television animation
Moomin (1969), Moomin
Moomin (1972), Moomin
Awards and honours
1962: Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for An Autumn Afternoon, The Outcast and Shinobi no mono
1962: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress for An Autumn Afternoon and The Outcast
1994: Medal with Purple Ribbon
1996: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gakkō no kaidan 2 and Yatsuhaka-mura
1999: Kinokuniya Theater Award
