FrameThrower · Actors · Kyōko Kagawa
Kyōko Kagawa
5 films · 270 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1957–1993
Born 5 December 1931 · Aso, Namegata, Ibaragi Prefecture, Japan
Kyōko Kagawa 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 270 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1957–1993
- The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette2004
- Medal with Purple Ribbon1998
- Kinuyo Tanaka Award1994
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress1994
How their films are shot
Measured across 270 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kyōko takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day — the look of the work Kyōko takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 270 frames from Kyōko Kagawa's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.