List of the best Kyoko Kagawa movies: Chikamatsu Monogatari(1954), The Lower Depths(1957), Mothra(1961), Okaasan(1952), Ginza Cosmetics(1951), The Bad Sleep Well(1960), Tokyo Story(1953), After Life(1998) ... ...
Drama, History
1954
116 Minutes
Osan
Kazuo Hasegawa Kyoko Kagawa Yoko Minamida Eitaro Shindo Sakae Ozawa Chieko Naniwa Ichiro Sugai Tatsuya Ishiguro Hisao Toake Ikkei Tamaki Kimiko Tachebana
businessman wife employee brother young girl underling melodramatic dark passionate brooding estate japan shop false accusations doomed romance on the run scandal theft siblings forbidden love
An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.
Drama
Japan
1957
125 Minutes
Okayo
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Kyoko Kagawa Ganjirô Nakamura Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Akemi Negishi Nijiko Kiyokawa Kôji Mitsui Eijiro Tono Haruo Tanaka
landlady thief sister husband actor gambler striking passionate boardinghouse japan infidelity jealousy love triangle sibling rivalry poverty decadence rivalry revenge 19th century
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Sci-Fi
Japan
1961
101 Minutes
Michi Hanamura
Frankie Sakai Hiroshi Koizumi Kyoko Kagawa Ken Uehara Jerry Ito Emi Ito Yumi Ito Takashi Shimura Akihiko Hirata Yoshifumi Tajima Hiroshi Akitsu
monster japanese man japanese woman princess politician police officer brooding emotional intense island japan vaudeville show street house laboratory monsters princess japan destruction danger
A giant, ancient moth begins to attack Japan when coming to the rescue of its two, foot-tall worshippers who were taken by shipwreck survivors.
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Daughter
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Drama
Japan
1951
87 Minutes
Kyôko
Kinuyo Tanaka Ranko Hanai Yûji Hori Kyoko Kagawa Eijirô Yanagi Eijiro Tono Yoshihiro Nishikubo Haruo Tanaka
A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
1960
144 Minutes
Yoshiko Nishi
Toshirô Mifune Takeshi Kato Masayuki Mori Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Takashi Shimura Kô Nishimura
daughter son father businessman vice president lawyer outlandish eerie japan wedding cemetery office revenge suicide corporate greed corruption cover-up rivalry wretched excess pursuit
Japanese police and a tycoon's (Masayuki Mori) son-in-law (Toshirô Mifune) discover deadly corporate corruption.
Drama
1953
134 Minutes
Kyoko Hirayama
Chishu Ryu Chieko Higashiyama Setsuko Hara Haruko Sugimura Sô Yamamura Kuniko Miyake Kyoko Kagawa Eijiro Tono Nobuo Nakamura Shiro Osaka Hisao Toake
father mother doctor hairdresser daughter-in-law soldier brooding sad somber tokyo osaka, japan train family home family aging death quest transformation 1950s
An elderly Japanese couple (Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama) visit their busy children but are not treated with respect.
Drama
Japan
1998
118 Minutes
Arata Iura Erika Oda Susumu Terajima Takashi Naitô Kei Tani Tôru Yuri Hisako Hara Akio Yokohama Kazuko Shirakawa Yusuke Iseya Sayaka Yoshino
counselor dead person elderly person dreamy emotional touching limbo meaning of life death daunting task memory love afterlife discovery love 1990s
After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.