
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

Street of Shame

Gate of Hell

Kurosawa

Haru no uzumaki

Solar Eclipse

Jōen no hatoba

Buddha

Brother and Sister

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Three Pearls

Odd Obsession

Kanojo no tokudane

The Loyal 47 Ronin

Born Fighter

Beauty and the Thief

Freedom School

The Motherland Far Far Away

Night Butterflies

A Woman's Skin

The Wandering Princess

Koi no Oranda-zaka

Tainted Flowers

The Third Will

The Sea of Beauty

Asakusa no hada

The Legendary Hell

Black Lizard

The Family

The Tale of Genji

A Certain Woman

The Princess Sen

A Woman's Life

Sweet Sweat

Thousand Cranes

Dancing Girl

The Woman Who Touched Legs

Operation Teahouse

Bonchi

Make-Up

Ôsaka no onna

Zoku hebi hime dōchū

Sorrow Is Only for Women

Clothes of Deception

Hebi hime dōchū

A Woman's Testament

Jirocho Fuji

Dedication of the Great Buddha

Taki no Shiraito

The Great Wall

A Bullet Hole Underground

Hole in One

The Little Runaway

The Daphne

Tora-san's Pure Love

A Fool's Love

Marriageable Age

Asakusa at Night

Hanakurabe tanuki-den

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

A Design for Dying

The Life of a Horse Trader

Paper Pigeon

Phoenix

New Women’s Dialogue

Daiei Studio is Bustling

The Makioka Sisters

Chance Meeting

Kurohyō

The Possessed

Mother

Goodbye, Hello

The Last Betrayal

A Rainbow at Every Turn

Resurrection

Tree of Love

Three Women Around Yoshinaka

現代インチキ物語 ど狸

Tsukigata Hanpeita

The Story of Shunkin

The Man Who Laughs Last

Musume no boken

Nuregami botan

Itohan Monogatari

Blooms of Hell

A Geisha on Horseback

The Ladder of Success

Machiko Kyō Dancing and Nobuko Otowa Singing

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

Tôjûrô no koi

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

The Beloved Image

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

The Woman and the Pirate






