Machiko Kyō

DOB: 1924-03-25

DOD: 2019-05-12

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.

Starred In

1950
Movie

Rashomon

1958
Movie

Musume no boken

1956
Movie

Street of Shame

1959
Movie

Odd Obsession

1953
Movie

Gate of Hell

1953
Movie

Kurohyō

1954
Movie

Aizen katsura

1959
Movie

Floating Weeds

1962
Movie

The Great Wall

2000
Movie

Kurosawa

1953
Movie

Brother and Sister

1962
Movie

Black Lizard

1957
Movie

Hole in One

1957
Movie

Night Butterflies

1954
Movie

The Princess Sen

1959
Movie

Jirocho Fuji

1951
Movie

The Tale of Genji

1954
Movie

Asakusa at Night

1954
Movie

A Certain Woman

1974
Movie

The Family

1961
Movie

Buddha

1975
Movie

Solar Eclipse

1966
Movie

The Little Runaway

1976
Movie

The Possessed

1958
Movie

The Loyal 47 Ronin

1960
Movie

Bonchi

1969
Movie

Thousand Cranes

1957
Movie

Jigoku bana

1958
Movie

Chance Meeting

1970
Movie

Born Fighter

1960
Movie

The Last Betrayal

1961
Movie

Marriageable Age

1957
Movie

Dancing Girl

1964
Movie

Sweet Sweat

1959
Movie

Goodbye, Hello

1951
Movie

The Bitch

1949
Movie

A Fool's Love

1966
Movie

The Daphne

1958
Movie

Tainted Flowers

1963
Movie

The Third Will

1961
Movie

A Design for Dying

1953
Movie

Ugetsu

1957
Movie

Itohan Monogatari

1984
Movie

Make-Up

1956
Movie

Tsukigata Hanpeita

1961
Movie

Nuregami botan

1950
Movie

Resurrection

1960
Movie

The Beloved Image

1962
Movie

A Woman's Life

1958
Movie

Mother

1956
Movie

Operation Teahouse

1994
Tv

Hana no Ran