Kyōko Kishida

Kyōko Kishida (岸田 今日子, Kishida Kyōko^?, April 29, 1930 – December 17, 2006) was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and writer of children's books. She is perhaps best known for her role in the 1964 film The Woman in the Dunes.

Kishida became an actress in 1950, and starred in a Yukio Mishima production of the 1960 film Salome. 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), Yasuzo Masumura's Manji (1964) (based on a novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki), 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.

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