Machiko Kyō

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: Acting

Born: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, 1924-03-25

Died: 2019-05-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The Man Who Laughs Last		0
2	1949	Hanakurabe tanuki-den		0
3	1949	A Bullet Hole Underground	Michiko Kaneko	0
4	1949	A Fool's Love	Naomi	0
5	1950	The Motherland Far Far Away	Mari, daughter	0
6	1950	Resurrection	Yukiko Ohara	0
7	1950	Rashomon	Masako	81
8	1951	Clothes of Deception	Kimicho	65
9	1951	The Tale of Genji	Awaji no ue	55
10	1951	The Bitch	Emmy	0
11	1951	The Life of a Horse Trader	Yuki	68
12	1952	The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa	Ryûko Beni	0
13	1952	Dedication of the Great Buddha		0
14	1952	I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki		0
15	1952	Beauty and the Thief	Sakin	0
16	1953	Ugetsu	Lady Wakasa	80
17	1953	Kurohyō		0
18	1953	Brother and Sister	Mon	66
19	1953	Gate of Hell	Lady Kesa	71
20	1954	A Certain Woman	Yoko Hayazuki	0
21	1954	Aizen katsura		0
22	1954	The Story of Shunkin		50
23	1954	Asakusa at Night	Setsuko Takashima	0
24	1954	The Princess Sen		50
25	1954	A Geisha on Horseback	Nobukichi	0
26	1955	A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love		0
27	1955	Princess Yang Kwei-fei	Princess Yang Kwei-fei	67
28	1955	New Women’s Dialogue		0
29	1956	Three Women Around Yoshinaka	Tomoe	70
30	1956	A Rainbow at Every Turn		0
31	1956	Street of Shame	Mickey	77
32	1956	Tsukigata Hanpeita	Hagino	70
33	1956	Operation Teahouse	Self	0
34	1957	Itohan Monogatari	Okatsu	0
35	1957	Daiei Studio is Bustling		0
36	1957	Dancing Girl	Chiyomi Hanamura	60
37	1957	Night Butterflies	Mari	63
38	1957	Jigoku bana		0
39	1957	The Teahouse of the August Moon	Lotus Blossom	60
40	1957	Hole in One	Nagako Kita	60
41	1958	Chance Meeting	Aya Koyanagi	0
42	1958	Sorrow Is Only for Women		0
43	1958	Mother	Takako Ômachi	0
44	1958	The Loyal 47 Ronin	Orui, Spy	60
45	1958	Tainted Flowers		0
46	1958	The Ladder of Success		0
47	1958	Musume no boken		0
48	1959	Goodbye, Hello	Umeko Ichige	60
49	1959	The Makioka Sisters		80
50	1959	The Woman and the Pirate	綾衣	0
51	1959	The Woman and the Pirate	お糸	0
52	1959	Jirocho Fuji	Okatsu	68
53	1959	Odd Obsession	Ikuko Kenmochi	63
54	1959	Floating Weeds	Sumiko	75
55	1960	A Woman's Testament		58
56	1960	The Wandering Princess	Ryûko Korinkakura (Hiroko Aishinkakura)	67
57	1960	Bonchi	Ofuku	70
58	1960	The Last Betrayal	Chizuru	0
59	1960	The Woman Who Touched Legs	Saya Shiozawa	60
60	1960	The Beloved Image		0
61	1961	Marriageable Age		0
62	1961	Nuregami botan		0
63	1961	A Design for Dying	Shikiko Oba	60
64	1961	Buddha	Nandabala	0
65	1962	Black Lizard	Mrs. Midorikawa	71
66	1962	Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo		0
67	1962	The Great Wall		60
68	1962	A Woman's Life	Kei Nunobiki	0
69	1963	The Third Will	Fujiyo Yajima	80
70	1964	Sweet Sweat	Umeko	75
71	1966	The Face of Another	Mrs. Okuyama	78
72	1966	The Daphne	Kikuko (the eldest daughter)	0
73	1966	The Little Runaway	Director of the shelter	10
74	1969	Thousand Cranes	Chikako Kurimoto	83
75	1970	Born Fighter	Sue Yoshida	0
76	1974	The Family	Aiko Takasu	100
77	1975	Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director		68
78	1975	Solar Eclipse		68
79	1976	The Possessed		0
80	1976	Tora-san's Pure Love	Aya	85
81	1984	Make-Up	Tsune Tsutano	0
82	2000	Kurosawa	Self	67
83		現代インチキ物語　ど狸		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	Yokomizo Seishi Series		70
2	1980	Nukata no Ōkimi		0
3	1994	Hana no Ran	Hino Shigeko	0

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