Machiko Kyō
Acting
Born: March 25, 1924 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died: May 12, 2019 (aged 95)
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
Known for
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Movies (94)
Rashomon
Masako
Ugetsu
Lady Wakasa
The Face of Another
Mrs. Okuyama
Floating Weeds
Sumiko
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Orui, Spy
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Street of Shame
Mickey
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Lotus Blossom
Gate of Hell
Lady Kesa
The Motherland Far Far Away
Mari, daughter
Thousand Cranes
Chikako Kurimoto
Freedom School
1951
Odd Obsession
Ikuko Kenmochi
Asakusa no hada
1950
Bonchi
Ofuku
Tainted Flowers
1958
Beauty and the Thief
Sakin
A Woman's Testament
1960
The Tale of Genji
Awaji no ue
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Saya Shiozawa
The Third Will
Fujiyo Yajima
Koi no Oranda-zaka
1951
Jōen no hatoba
1951
Sweet Sweat
Umeko
The Family
Aiko Takasu
Black Lizard
Mrs. Midorikawa
Clothes of Deception
Kimicho
Buddha
Nandabala
Born Fighter
Sue Yoshida
Asakusa at Night
Setsuko Takashima
The Bitch
Emmy
The Great Wall
1962
Hebi hime dōchū
1949
Brother and Sister
Mon
The Wandering Princess
Ryûko Korinkakura / Hiroko Aishinkakura
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Tomoe
Goodbye, Hello
Umeko Ichige
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
The Makioka Sisters
1959
Tora-san's Pure Love
Aya
The Little Runaway
Director of the shelter
Solar Eclipse
1975
The Sea of Beauty
1950
A Certain Woman
Yoko Hayazuki
Dancing Girl
Chiyomi Hanamura
Tree of Love
1954
Make-Up
Tsune Tsutano
A Woman's Life
Kei Nunobiki
The Possessed
1976
Kanojo no tokudane
1952
Three Pearls
1949
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Ryûko Beni
Itohan Monogatari
Okatsu
Hole in One
Nagako Kita
A Fool's Love
Naomi
The Life of a Horse Trader
Yuki
Jirocho Fuji
Okatsu
The Princess Sen
1954
The Legendary Hell
Oden Takahashi
A Bullet Hole Underground
Michiko Kaneko
Night Butterflies
Mari
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
Blooms of Hell
1957
Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957
The Daphne
Kikuko (the eldest daughter)
Taki no Shiraito
Taki no Shiraito
The Ladder of Success
1958
Marriageable Age
1961
Hanakurabe tanuki-den
1949
A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956
The Woman and the Pirate
綾衣
The Woman and the Pirate
お糸
Nuregami botan
1961
Chance Meeting
Aya Koyanagi
A Woman's Skin
1957
A Geisha on Horseback
Nobukichi
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958
The Last Betrayal
Chizuru
Resurrection
Yukiko Ohara
The Beloved Image
1960
Tôjûrô no koi
Okaji
Ôsaka no onna
Osen
The Man Who Laughs Last
1949
Kurohyō
1953
Musume no boken
1958
New Women’s Dialogue
1955
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962
A Design for Dying
Shikiko Oba
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952
Mother
Takako Ômachi
The Story of Shunkin
1954
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Hagino
Phoenix
1950
Paper Pigeon
Ryoko Kashiwabara
