Cast
Machiko Kyō
Acting
Cast
Machiko Kyō
Known for
Acting
Born
1924-03-25
From
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died
2019-05-12
Also known as Machiko Kyô , ماچیکو کیو
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.
★8.0
MOVIE1950
Rashomon
as Masako
★7.0
MOVIE1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Saya Shiozawa
★7.2
MOVIE1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1970
Born Fighter
as Sue Yoshida
★9.0
MOVIE1952
Beauty and the Thief
as Sakin
★7.0
MOVIE1950
The Motherland Far Far Away
as Mari, daughter
★7.8
MOVIE1966
The Face of Another
as Mrs. Okuyama
★8.0
MOVIE1953
Ugetsu
as Lady Wakasa
★7.5
MOVIE1959
Floating Weeds
as Sumiko
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Dancing Girl
as Chiyomi Hanamura
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Tainted Flowers
MOVIE1960
The Legendary Hell
as Oden Takahashi
MOVIE1950
Phoenix
★7.1
MOVIE1953
Gate of Hell
as Lady Kesa
MOVIE1952
Taki no Shiraito
as Taki no Shiraito
★6.7
MOVIE1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as Princess Yang Kwei-fei
★5.0
MOVIE1954
The Princess Sen
★7.4
MOVIE1959
Jirocho Fuji
as Okatsu
MOVIE1950
The Sea of Beauty
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Kurosawa
as Self
MOVIE1957
A Woman's Skin
★6.9
MOVIE1975
Solar Eclipse
MOVIE1959
Paper Pigeon
as Ryoko Kashiwabara
★6.2
MOVIE1959
Odd Obsession
as Ikuko Kenmochi
★10.0
MOVIE1966
The Daphne
as Kikuko (the eldest daughter)
MOVIE1955
Tôjûrô no koi
as Okaji
★7.0
MOVIE1962
The Great Wall
★6.3
MOVIE1953
Brother and Sister
as Mon
MOVIE1958
Ôsaka no onna
as Osen
★7.7
MOVIE1956
Street of Shame
as Mickey
★6.2
MOVIE1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Orui, Spy
★7.7
MOVIE1960
Bonchi
as Ofuku
★6.0
MOVIE1951
The Tale of Genji
as Awaji no ue
★7.1
MOVIE1962
Black Lizard
as Mrs. Midorikawa
★6.7
MOVIE1960
The Wandering Princess
as Ryûko Korinkakura / Hiroko Aishinkakura
MOVIE1958
Mother
as Takako Ômachi
★9.0
MOVIE1974
The Family
as Aiko Takasu
★10.0
MOVIE1984
Make-Up
as Tsune Tsutano
★10.0
MOVIE1952
Dedication of the Great Buddha
★7.7
MOVIE1956
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
as Tomoe
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Buddha
as Nandabala
★6.8
MOVIE1951
The Life of a Horse Trader
as Yuki
★6.2
MOVIE1957
The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Lotus Blossom
★6.5
MOVIE1956
Operation Teahouse
as Self
★9.2
MOVIE1976
Tora-san's Pure Love
as Aya
★8.3
MOVIE1964
Sweet Sweat
as Umeko
★3.0
MOVIE1966
The Little Runaway
as Director of the shelter
MOVIE1956
A Rainbow at Every Turn
★9.0
MOVIE1949
A Fool's Love
as Naomi
★6.4
MOVIE1960
A Woman's Testament
★7.0
MOVIE1954
Asakusa at Night
as Setsuko Takashima
★7.5
MOVIE1959
Goodbye, Hello
as Umeko Ichige
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Night Butterflies
as Mari
★8.3
MOVIE1969
Thousand Cranes
as Chikako Kurimoto
★9.0
MOVIE1949
Hanakurabe tanuki-den
★7.0
MOVIE1954
A Certain Woman
as Yoko Hayazuki
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Chance Meeting
as Aya Koyanagi
★7.7
MOVIE1963
The Third Will
as Fujiyo Yajima
★7.0
MOVIE1958
The Ladder of Success
★7.0
MOVIE1976
The Possessed
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Marriageable Age
★9.0
MOVIE1959
The Woman and the Pirate
as 綾衣
★9.0
MOVIE1959
The Woman and the Pirate
as お糸
★10.0
MOVIE1955
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Clothes of Deception
as Kimicho
★9.0
MOVIE1950
Resurrection
as Yukiko Ohara
★6.3
MOVIE1954
The Story of Shunkin
★7.0
MOVIE1957
Itohan Monogatari
as Okatsu
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Hagino
★8.5
MOVIE1959
The Makioka Sisters
MOVIE1949
A Bullet Hole Underground
as Michiko Kaneko
MOVIE1961
Nuregami botan
MOVIE1958
Musume no boken
MOVIETBA
現代インチキ物語 ど狸
MOVIE1960
The Last Betrayal
as Chizuru
★9.0
MOVIE1957
Jigoku bana
MOVIE1957
Daiei Studio is Bustling
★8.0
MOVIE1962
A Woman's Life
as Kei Nunobiki
MOVIE1952
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
as Ryûko Beni
★8.0
MOVIE1951
The Bitch
as Emmy
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Hole in One
as Nagako Kita
MOVIE1955
New Women’s Dialogue
★7.0
MOVIE1954
A Geisha on Horseback
as Nobukichi
★6.5
MOVIE1961
A Design for Dying
as Shikiko Oba
★8.0
MOVIE1960
The Beloved Image
MOVIE1953
Kurohyō
MOVIE1949
The Man Who Laughs Last
MOVIE1962
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Sorrow Is Only for Women
★8.0
MOVIE1954
Tree of Love
MOVIE1952
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
MOVIE1950
Asakusa no hada
MOVIE1949