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.
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真之助の母・香木艶子
Aguri
小森晶乃
Narrator (voice)
Moomin (voice)
Matsushima
Ayabe Takako
Ôishi Riku
Yodo-dono
Moomin (voice)
Zankurô's mother
Narrator
Yagita's mother
Kie Azuma
Mizukoshi Ayako
Kōkin Miyagawa
The Woman
Sakura
Nurse
Madame Kaoru
Koto Teacher
Miriam / Jaris (voice)
Ryûko
Lady Hagi
Grandmother (voice)
Ochika
Kimiyo Tarumi
Maid-In-Waiting
Ohba, Head Nurse
Sonoko Kakiuchi
Inone
Lady of the Sister Wind
Shima Ikegata
Narrator (Voice of the Prophecy)
Wife
Fusako Ishimoto
Sanko Otori
Natsu Mizukami
Mrs. Tanuma
Sanko Otori
Kotake Tajimi / Koume Tajimi
Omon
Kuginukiya
Self
Kimie Hasenuma
Old geisha Miyako (cameo)
Azumaya
Narrator
Mayumi
Cleaning Lady
Sayoko Goto
Benten
Akie
Sumiko Tsuboi
Sally
Otome
Yoko Saijyo
Narrator
Ohama
Chiyo's Friend
Reiko
Takazawa Mitsue
Kichibi
Oharu Tsutaya
Nobuko Kitashiro
Ms Okiyama
Yoshiko Hoshino
Narrator (voice)
Naoko Anekoji
Narrator (voice)
Mama, the girl's mother
Inoko's wife
School Master
(voice)
Fumiko Ando
Narration (voice)
Mikie Shima
Taeko Kano
Urao
Sakie
Kaoyo
Ume
Self