Kayoko Shiraishi

Kayoko Shiraishi
Born	(1941-12-09) December 9, 1941 Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Stage actress

Kayoko Shiraishi (白石 加代子, Shiraishi Kayoko) 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.

Filmography

Films

Date	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1973	Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41	Oba
1977	Akuma no Temariuta
1983	The Makioka Sisters
1992	Oedipus Rex	narrator
2004	Umizaru
2005	Yamato
2008	Fine, Totally Fine
2020	Labyrinth of Cinema
2022	Thousand and One Nights
2023	Kumo to Saru no Kazoku
	Rohan at the Louvre

Television

Date	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2004	Dark Tales of Japan		TV movie
2017	Hiyokko	Tomi Tachibana	Asadora
2019	Idaten	Wakako Mishima	Taiga drama
2023	The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House	Kiyo's grandmother

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (2005)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2012)

External links

• Kayoko Shiraishi at IMDb