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.
[1] In Shiraishi, Suzuki found an actress whose physical talents could capture his theories about Japanese stage performance.
[1] 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.