Machiko Kyō
Acting • Born 1924-03-25 – Died 2019-05-12
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.
Filmography
87 credits
Rashomon
Movie • 1950
Masako
Musume no boken
Movie • 1958
A Geisha on Horseback
Movie • 1954
Nobukichi
The Face of Another
Movie • 1966
Mrs. Okuyama
Street of Shame
Movie • 1956
Mickey
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Movie • 1957
Lotus Blossom
Odd Obsession
Movie • 1959
Ikuko Kenmochi
Gate of Hell
Movie • 1953
Lady Kesa
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
Movie • 1962
Kurohyō
Movie • 1953
Aizen katsura
Movie • 1954
Floating Weeds
Movie • 1959
Sumiko
The Great Wall
Movie • 1962
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Movie • 1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Kurosawa
Movie • 2000
Self
Brother and Sister
Movie • 1953
Mon
Black Lizard
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Midorikawa
Hanakurabe tanuki-den
Movie • 1949
Hole in One
Movie • 1957
Nagako Kita
A Bullet Hole Underground
Movie • 1949
Michiko Kaneko
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Movie • 1952
The Wandering Princess
Movie • 1960
Ryûko Korinkakura / Hiroko Aishinkakura
The Ladder of Success
Movie • 1958
Night Butterflies
Movie • 1957
Mari
The Woman and the Pirate
Movie • 1959
綾衣
The Woman and the Pirate
Movie • 1959
お糸
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Movie • 1952
The Princess Sen
Movie • 1954
Jirocho Fuji
Movie • 1959
Okatsu
Tora-san's Pure Love
Movie • 1976
Aya
The Motherland Far Far Away
Movie • 1950
Mari, daughter
A Rainbow at Every Turn
Movie • 1956
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1951
Awaji no ue
Asakusa at Night
Movie • 1954
Setsuko Takashima
A Certain Woman
Movie • 1954
Yoko Hayazuki
The Family
Movie • 1974
Aiko Takasu
Buddha
Movie • 1961
Nandabala
The Makioka Sisters
Movie • 1959
The Story of Shunkin
Movie • 1954
Solar Eclipse
Movie • 1975
The Little Runaway
Movie • 1966
Director of the shelter
The Possessed
Movie • 1976
New Women’s Dialogue
Movie • 1955
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Movie • 1958
Orui, Spy
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Movie • 1960
Saya Shiozawa
Bonchi
Movie • 1960
Ofuku
The Life of a Horse Trader
Movie • 1951
Yuki
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Movie • 1956
Tomoe
A Woman's Testament
Movie • 1960
Beauty and the Thief
Movie • 1952
Sakin
Thousand Cranes
Movie • 1969
Chikako Kurimoto
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie • 1975
Self
Jigoku bana
Movie • 1957
Clothes of Deception
Movie • 1951
Kimicho
Chance Meeting
Movie • 1958
Aya Koyanagi
Born Fighter
Movie • 1970
Sue Yoshida
The Last Betrayal
Movie • 1960
Chizuru
Marriageable Age
Movie • 1961
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1957
Chiyomi Hanamura
Sweet Sweat
Movie • 1964
Umeko
Goodbye, Hello
Movie • 1959
Umeko Ichige
The Bitch
Movie • 1951
Emmy
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Movie • 1952
Ryûko Beni
A Fool's Love
Movie • 1949
Naomi
The Daphne
Movie • 1966
Kikuko (the eldest daughter)
Tainted Flowers
Movie • 1958
The Third Will
Movie • 1963
Fujiyo Yajima
A Design for Dying
Movie • 1961
Shikiko Oba
Ugetsu
Movie • 1953
Lady Wakasa
Itohan Monogatari
Movie • 1957
Okatsu
Make-Up
Movie • 1984
Tsune Tsutano
Sorrow Is Only for Women
Movie • 1958
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Movie • 1955
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie • 1956
Hagino
Nuregami botan
Movie • 1961
Resurrection
Movie • 1950
Yukiko Ohara
The Beloved Image
Movie • 1960
The Man Who Laughs Last
Movie • 1949
A Woman's Life
Movie • 1962
Kei Nunobiki
Mother
Movie • 1958
Takako Ômachi
Daiei Studio is Bustling
Movie • 1957
Operation Teahouse
Movie • 1956
Self
現代インチキ物語 ど狸
Movie
滝の白糸
Movie • 1952
Nukata no Ōkimi
TV • 1980
Hana no Ran
TV • 1994
Hino Shigeko
Yokomizo Seishi Series
TV • 1977