
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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as Kōkin Miyagawa
2004

as Aguri
1964

as 真之助の母・香木艶子
1984

as Zankurô's mother
1995

as The Woman
1964

as Yodo-dono
1971

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1993
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as Ume
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as Otome
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as Taeko Kano
1997

as Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi
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as Ohama
1994

as Old geisha Miyako (cameo)
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as Natsu Mizukami
1991

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1990

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1990

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1989
as Self
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as Self
1 episodes

as Narrator (voice)
38 episodes

1 episodes

as Kōkin Miyagawa
1 episodes

as Aguri
52 episodes

as 真之助の母・香木艶子
156 episodes

as Zankurô's mother
8 episodes

as Yodo-dono
52 episodes

as 小森晶乃
151 episodes

as Ayabe Takako
26 episodes
as Ôishi Riku
36 episodes

as Moomin (voice)
65 episodes

as Matsushima
49 episodes

as Yagita's mother
23 episodes

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as Sakura
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as Mizukoshi Ayako
11 episodes

as Narrator
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9 episodes

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