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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 25, 1924
Died
May 12, 2019
Place of Birth
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As
- Machiko Kyô
- ماچیکو کیو
Machiko Kyō
1.6 Popularity
Biography
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
Credits
Kurosawa
as Self
2000
6.7
Hana no Ran
as Hino Shigeko
1994
0.0
Make-Up
as Tsune Tsutano
1984
0.0
Nukata no Ōkimi
1980
0.0
Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977
7.0
Tora-san's Pure Love
as Aya
1976
8.5
The Possessed
1976
0.0
Solar Eclipse
1975
6.8
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
6.8
The Family
as Aiko Takasu
1974
10.0
Born Fighter
as Sue Yoshida
1970
0.0
Thousand Cranes
as Chikako Kurimoto
1969
8.3
The Little Runaway
as Director of the shelter
1966
1.0
The Daphne
as Kikuko (the eldest daughter)
1966
0.0
The Face of Another
as Mrs. Okuyama
1966
7.8
Sweet Sweat
as Umeko
1964
8.0
The Third Will
as Fujiyo Yajima
1963
8.0
A Woman's Life
as Kei Nunobiki
1962
0.0
The Great Wall
1962
6.0
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962
0.0
Black Lizard
as Mrs. Midorikawa
1962
7.1
Buddha
as Nandabala
1961
0.0
A Design for Dying
as Shikiko Oba
1961
6.0
Nuregami botan
1961
0.0
Marriageable Age
1961
0.0
The Beloved Image
1960
0.0
The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Saya Shiozawa
1960
6.0
The Last Betrayal
as Chizuru
1960
0.0
Bonchi
as Ofuku
1960
7.0
The Wandering Princess
as Ryûko Korinkakura (Hiroko Aishinkakura)
1960
6.7
A Woman's Testament
1960
5.8
Floating Weeds
as Sumiko
1959
7.5
Odd Obsession
as Ikuko Kenmochi
1959
6.3
Jirocho Fuji
as Okatsu
1959
6.8
The Woman and the Pirate
as 綾衣
1959
0.0
The Woman and the Pirate
as お糸
1959
0.0
The Makioka Sisters
1959
8.0
Goodbye, Hello
as Umeko Ichige
1959
6.0
Musume no boken
1958
0.0
The Ladder of Success
1958
0.0
Tainted Flowers
1958
0.0
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Orui, Spy
1958
6.0
Mother
as Takako Ômachi
1958
0.0
Sorrow Is Only for Women
1958
0.0
Chance Meeting
as Aya Koyanagi
1958
0.0
Hole in One
as Nagako Kita
1957
6.0
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Lotus Blossom
1957
6.0
Jigoku bana
1957
0.0
Night Butterflies
as Mari
1957
6.3
Dancing Girl
as Chiyomi Hanamura
1957
6.0
Daiei Studio is Bustling
1957
0.0
Itohan Monogatari
as Okatsu
1957
0.0
Operation Teahouse
as Self
1956
0.0
Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Hagino
1956
7.0
Street of Shame
as Mickey
1956
7.7
A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956
0.0
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
as Tomoe
1956
7.0
New Women’s Dialogue
1955
0.0
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
6.7
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
0.0
A Geisha on Horseback
as Nobukichi
1954
0.0
The Princess Sen
1954
5.0
Asakusa at Night
as Setsuko Takashima
1954
0.0
The Story of Shunkin
1954
5.0
Aizen katsura
1954
0.0
A Certain Woman
as Yoko Hayazuki
1954
0.0
Gate of Hell
as Lady Kesa
1953
7.1
Brother and Sister
as Mon
1953
6.6
Kurohyō
1953
0.0
Ugetsu
as Lady Wakasa
1953
8.0
Beauty and the Thief
as Sakin
1952
0.0
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952
0.0
🎬
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
0.0
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
as Ryûko Beni
1952
0.0
The Life of a Horse Trader
as Yuki
1951
7.0
The Bitch
as Emmy
1951
0.0
The Tale of Genji
as Awaji no ue
1951
5.5
Clothes of Deception
as Kimicho
1951
6.5
Rashomon
as Masako
1950
8.1
Resurrection
as Yukiko Ohara
1950
0.0
The Motherland Far Far Away
as Mari, daughter
1950
0.0
A Fool's Love
as Naomi
1949
0.0
A Bullet Hole Underground
as Michiko Kaneko
1949
0.0
Hanakurabe tanuki-den
1949
0.0
The Man Who Laughs Last
1949
0.0
現代インチキ物語 ど狸
N/A
0.0