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