
Machiko Kyō
Born March 25, 1924 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Machiko Kyō (Japanese: 京 マチ子 Hepburn: Kyō Machiko, March 25, 1924 – May 12, 2019) was a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She rose to extraordinary domestic praise in Japan for her work in two of the greatest Japanese films of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu. Machiko trained to be a dancer before entering films in 1949. The following year, she would achieve international fame as the female lead in Akira Kurosawa's classic film Rashōmon. Kyō starred in many more Japanese productions, including Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) and Street of Shame (1956), Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate of Hell (1953), Kon Ichikawa's Odd Obsession (1959), Yasujirō Ozu's Floating Weeds (1959), and Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another (1966). Her only role in a non-Japanese film was as Lotus Blossom, a young geisha, in The Teahouse of the August Moon, starring opposite Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford. In her eighties, Kyō continued to perform in traditional Japanese theatrical productions put on by famed producer Fukuko Ishii. Her final role was as Matsuura Shino in the NHK television drama series Haregi Koko Ichiban in 2000. Kyō was nominated for a Golden Globe for The Teahouse of the August Moon, a great feat for an Asian actress at the time, and was awarded many prizes, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Awards of the Japanese Academy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Machiko Kyō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Teahouse of the August Moon

Floating Weeds

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

Gate of Hell

Street of Shame

Kurosawa

Haru no uzumaki

The Loyal 47 Ronin

Three Pearls

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Solar Eclipse

Odd Obsession

Brother and Sister

Beauty and the Thief

The Motherland Far Far Away

Koi no Oranda-zaka

Jōen no hatoba

Black Lizard

Buddha

The Woman Who Touched Legs

Kanojo no tokudane

Night Butterflies

Tainted Flowers

Born Fighter

The Family

A Woman's Skin

The Princess Sen

Dancing Girl

The Third Will

Marriageable Age

The Wandering Princess

Clothes of Deception

Zoku hebi hime dōchū

Asakusa no hada

The Tale of Genji

A Woman's Life

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

A Bullet Hole Underground

Sweet Sweat

Freedom School

The Sea of Beauty

Thousand Cranes

Jirocho Fuji

Bonchi

Dedication of the Great Buddha

Kurohyō

Make-Up

A Rainbow at Every Turn

A Design for Dying

Paper Pigeon

The Life of a Horse Trader

Hole in One

Tsukigata Hanpeita

The Great Wall

Tora-san's Pure Love

Phoenix

Asakusa at Night

A Woman's Testament

Daiei Studio is Bustling

Three Women Around Yoshinaka

The Daphne

The Possessed

Mother

A Fool's Love

The Legendary Hell

Chance Meeting

The Little Runaway

Operation Teahouse

Ôsaka no onna

A Certain Woman

Hebi hime dōchū

Taki no Shiraito

New Women’s Dialogue

Hanakurabe tanuki-den

The Last Betrayal

Nuregami botan

Tree of Love

The Man Who Laughs Last

Tôjûrô no koi

Goodbye, Hello

Sorrow Is Only for Women

A Geisha on Horseback

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

現代インチキ物語 ど狸

Itohan Monogatari

The Story of Shunkin

The Beloved Image

The Makioka Sisters

Blooms of Hell

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

Machiko Kyō Dancing and Nobuko Otowa Singing

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

Musume no boken

The Bitch

Resurrection

The Woman and the Pirate






