
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.
89 acting credits
Acting · 89

Rashomon
1950

Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977

Nukata no Ōkimi
1980

Hana no Ran
1994

The Face of Another
1966

Ugetsu
1953

Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955

Street of Shame
1956

Gate of Hell
1953

Floating Weeds
1959

Odd Obsession
1959

The Family
1974

Buddha
1961

Brother and Sister
1953

Solar Eclipse
1975

Black Lizard
1962

Sweet Sweat
1964

The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958

The Third Will
1963

The Tale of Genji
1951

The Teahouse of the August Moon
1957

Kurosawa
2000

The Great Wall
1962

The Wandering Princess
1960

Tora-san's Pure Love
1976

Clothes of Deception
1951

Bonchi
1960

The Life of a Horse Trader
1951

A Certain Woman
1954

Itohan Monogatari
1957

A Design for Dying
1961

The Possessed
1976

A Bullet Hole Underground
1949

Thousand Cranes
1969

Hole in One
1957

The Little Runaway
1966

A Woman's Testament
1960

A Woman's Life
1962
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952

Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956

Night Butterflies
1957

Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957

Goodbye, Hello
1959

The Makioka Sisters
1959

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952

A Geisha on Horseback
1954

The Bitch
1951

Make-Up
1984

The Beloved Image
1960

The Woman and the Pirate
1959

Chance Meeting
1958

Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1956

Musume no boken
1958

Tree of Love
1954

The Last Betrayal
1960

A Fool's Love
1949

The Ladder of Success
1958

A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956

Mother
1958

Kurohyō
1953

Jigoku bana
1957

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955

The Daphne
1966

Operation Teahouse
1956

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962

Hanakurabe tanuki-den
1949

Marriageable Age
1961

Resurrection
1950

The Story of Shunkin
1954

The Man Who Laughs Last
1949

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1952

Dancing Girl
1957

Nuregami botan
1961

Jirocho Fuji
1959

New Women’s Dialogue
1955

Asakusa at Night
1954

The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960

Beauty and the Thief
1952

Born Fighter
1970

Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958

Tainted Flowers
1958

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975

The Princess Sen
1954

The Motherland Far Far Away
1950

現代インチキ物語 ど狸
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滝の白糸
1952

The Sea of Beauty
1950

Ôsaka no onna
1958

Tôjûrô no koi
1955