Machiko Kyō

Known for ActingBorn 1924-03-25Died 2019-05-12Osaka, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Make-Up

The Daphne

Buddha

Chance Meeting

Tainted Flowers

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

Dedication of the Great Buddha

Tora-san's Pure Love

The Family

Born Fighter

The Woman and the Pirate

Jigoku bana

Beauty and the Thief

Resurrection

Hanakurabe tanuki-den

A Fool's Love

The Makioka Sisters

Sweet Sweat

Thousand Cranes

A Woman's Life

The Beloved Image

Sorrow Is Only for Women

Hole in One

Dancing Girl

Operation Teahouse

Tree of Love

Rashomon

Ugetsu

The Bitch

The Face of Another

The Third Will

Bonchi

Street of Shame

Three Women Around Yoshinaka

Floating Weeds

Goodbye, Hello

Kurosawa

Jirocho Fuji

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

Hana no Ran

Yokomizo Seishi Series

The Possessed

Black Lizard

Solar Eclipse

The Great Wall

Gate of Hell

Marriageable Age

The Woman Who Touched Legs