Kyôko Kishida

Kyōko Kishida April 29 1930 December 17 2006 was a Japanese actress voice actress and writer of childrens books Her father was Kunio Kishida a playwright and the founder of the Bungakuza 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 YodoDono 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 Kishidas film credits include Yasujirō Ozus An Autumn Afternoon 1962 The Broken Commandment based on a novel by Shimazaki Toson Hiroshi Teshigaharas The Woman in the Dunes 1964 and The Face of Another 1966 both from novels by Kōbō Abe Kon Ichikawas 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Kyōko Kishida licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia