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.

Filmography

Films

Television

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

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1941 births
Living people
Japanese film actresses
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class
Japanese television actresses
Japanese stage actresses
20th-century Japanese actresses
21st-century Japanese actresses
People from Minato
Actresses from Tokyo