Kagawa Kyôko
Overview
香川京子
5 Dec 1931
Makino Kyôko
牧野香子
Namekata, Ibaraki, Japan
Dropped out of an all-girls' school to pursue acting.
Appeared frequently for directors Naruse Mikio, Mizoguchi Kenji, Kurosawa Akira. In Kurosawa's films she often played the lover or wife of Mifune Toshirô's character.
Appeared in a single sci-fi film, Mothra, in 1961. According to author Stuart Galbraith IV, Kagawa was displeased with sci-fi and declined to discuss it.
Married a reporter in 1963. Retired from acting in 1965 and moved to New York. She returned to Japan in 1968 and resumed acting on stage and television.
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