Kyōko Kagawa (香川 京子 Kagawa Kyōko, born 5 December 1931) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff. She won the "New Face Nomination" sponsored by the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper out of about 6,000 applicants and joined Shintoho. She was also taking entrance exams for a regular company at the same time, and her final interview and the final exam for the New Faces camera test overlapped, but with her mother's advice, she decided to pursue acting. After appearing in Red Beard in 1965 , she gave birth to a child and accompanied her husband to New York where he was posted overseas, leaving the film industry for about three years. She returned to Japan in 1968. As film began to decline, she expanded her field of work to include television dramas and stage productions. She was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1998 and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette in 2004 . 카가와 쿄코(1931년생, Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 赤い陣羽織, 천국과 지옥, 黒帯三国志가 있으며, 그 외에도 芋たこなんきん, 동경 이야기, ふたりっ子, 水色の時, 붉은 수염, 愛欲の裁き, 深い河, 花の生涯, 쉘 위 댄스, 黎明八月十五日, 青銅の基督, The Story of Film: An Odyssey 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2025년 오즈 야스지로의 일기에 출연했다. 2022년 Kinuyo Tanaka, une femme dont on parle에 출연했다. 2022년 島守の塔에 출연했다.