Biography
Kayoko Shiraishi is a Japanese stage actress. Shiraishi became involved in the Angura ("underground") theater movement in Japan in the early 1960s, as the star performer in a theater troupe called the Waseda Little Theatre, led by director Tadashi Suzuki. In Shiraishi, Suzuki found an actress whose physical talents could capture his theories about Japanese stage performance. Her first film role was as Oba in Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1973). She is the narrator in the 1992 film of Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex directed by Julie Taymor.
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Awards & recognition
- Kikuchi Kan Prize · 2014
- Medal with Purple Ribbon · 2005
Filmography12 titles
High-Speed Parahero Gand-D
Rohan at the Louvre
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
The Makioka Sisters
Scarlet
House of Ninjas
Hanagatami
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Labyrinth of Cinema
Great Performances
Dark Tales of Japan
Samurai Reincarnation