Machiko Kyō
Acting
Born 1924-03-25
Died 2019-05-12
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
101 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
45 credits
Rashomon
Ugetsu
Hana no Ran
The Face of Another
Floating Weeds
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Gate of Hell
Beauty and the Thief
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
The Motherland Far Far Away
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Born Fighter
Street of Shame
Kurosawa
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Odd Obsession
Buddha
Bonchi
The Wandering Princess
Jirocho Fuji
The Daphne
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Make-Up
Tora-san's Pure Love
The Little Runaway
Dancing Girl
The Third Will
Night Butterflies
A Design for Dying
Tôjûrô no koi
Brother and Sister
The Life of a Horse Trader
The Family
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Black Lizard
Itohan Monogatari
Clothes of Deception
The Legendary Hell
A Woman's Life
Paper Pigeon
Thousand Cranes
Taki no Shiraito
The Tale of Genji
The Bitch
A Certain Woman
Other credits
15 credits
Yokomizo Seishi Series
Koi no Oranda-zaka
Tainted Flowers
Zoku hebi hime dōchū
Solar Eclipse
Hebi hime dōchū
The Great Wall
Asakusa no hada
Nukata no Ōkimi
The Sea of Beauty
A Woman's Testament
The Princess Sen
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Three Pearls
Phoenix
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