Machiko Kyō
Birthday: 1924-03-25 | Place of Birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, JapanMachiko 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
Acting
Role
as Lady Wakasa
as Self
as Hino Shigeko
as Tsune Tsutano
as Aiko Takasu
as Sumiko
as Chikako Kurimoto
as Mrs. Okuyama
as Director of the shelter
as Kikuko (the eldest daughter)
as Umeko
as Fujiyo Yajima
as Kei Nunobiki
as Mrs. Midorikawa
as Ikuko Kenmochi
as Shikiko Oba
as Ryûko Korinkakura (Hiroko Aishinkakura)
as Saya Shiozawa
as Okatsu
as Umeko Ichige
as お糸
