Machiko Kyō
Birthday
1924/03/25
Day of death
2019/05/12 (95 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Also know as
Machiko Kyô
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 clas...Read more
Acting
(1950) Rashomon
as Masako
(1958) Musume no boken
as ---
(1954) A Geisha on Horseback
as Nobukichi
(1966) The Face of Another
as Mrs. Okuyama
(1956) Street of Shame
as Mickey
(1957) The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Lotus Blossom
(1959) Odd Obsession
as Ikuko Kenmochi
(1953) Gate of Hell
as Lady Kesa
(1962) Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
as ---
(1953) Kurohyō
as ---
(1954) Aizen katsura
as ---
(1959) Floating Weeds
as Sumiko
(1962) The Great Wall
as ---
(1955) Princess Yang Kwei Fei
as Princess Yang Kwei-fei
(2000) Kurosawa
as Self
(1953) Brother and Sister
as Mon
(1962) Black Lizard
as Mrs. Midorikawa
(1949) Hanakurabe tanuki-den
as ---
(1957) Hole in One
as Nagako Kita
(1949) A Bullet Hole Underground
as Michiko Kaneko
(1952) I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
as ---
(1960) The Wandering Princess
as Ryûko Korinkakura (Hiroko Aishinkakura)
(1958) The Ladder of Success
as ---
(1957) Night Butterflies
as Mari
(1959) 女と海賊
as 綾衣
(1959) 女と海賊
as お糸
(1952) Dedication of the Great Buddha
as ---
(1954) The Princess Sen
as ---
(1959) Jirocho Fuji
as Okatsu
(1976) Tora-san's Pure Love
as Aya
(1950) The Motherland Far Far Away
as Mari, daughter
(1956) A Rainbow at Every Turn
as ---
(1951) The Tale of Genji
as Awaji no ue
(1954) 浅草の夜
as Setsuko Takashima
(1954) A Certain Woman
as Yoko Hayazuki
(1974) The Family
as Aiko Takasu
(1961) Buddha
as Nandabala
(1959) The Makioka Sisters
as ---
(1954) The Story of Shunkin
as ---
(1975) Solar Eclipse
as ---
(1966) The Little Runaway
as Director of the shelter
(1976) The Possessed
as ---
(1955) New Women’s Dialogue
as ---
(1958) The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Orui, Spy
(1960) The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Saya Shiozawa
(1960) Bonchi
as Ofuku
(1951) The Life of a Horse Trader
as Yuki
(1956) Three Women Around Yoshinaka
as Tomoe
(1960) A Woman's Testament
as ---
(1952) Beauty and the Thief
as Sakin
(1969) Thousand Cranes
as Chikako Kurimoto
(1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as ---
(1957) Jigoku bana
as ---
(1951) Clothes of Deception
as Kimicho
(1958) Chance Meeting
as Aya Koyanagi
(1970) Born Fighter
as Sue Yoshida
(1960) The Last Betrayal
as Chizuru
(1961) Marriageable Age
as ---
(1957) Dancing Girl
as Chiyomi Hanamura
(1964) Sweet Sweat
as Umeko
(1959) Goodbye, Hello
as Umeko Ichige
(1951) The Bitch
as Emmy
(1952) The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
as Ryûko Beni
(1949) A Fool's Love
as Naomi
(1966) The Daphne
as Kikuko (the eldest daughter)
(1958) Tainted Flowers
as ---
(1963) The Third Will
as Fujiyo Yajima
(1961) A Design for Dying
as Shikiko Oba
(1953) Ugetsu
as Lady Wakasa
(1957) Itohan Monogatari
as Okatsu
(1984) Make-Up
as Tsune Tsutano
(1958) Sorrow Is Only for Women
as ---
(1955) A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
as ---
(1956) Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Hagino
(1961) Nuregami botan
as ---
(1950) Resurrection
as Yukiko Ohara
(1960) The Beloved Image
as ---
(1949) The Man Who Laughs Last
as ---
(1962) A Woman's Life
as Kei Nunobiki
(1958) Mother
as Takako Ômachi
(1957) Daiei Studio is Bustling
as ---
(1956) Operation Teahouse
as Self
(1980) Nukata no Ōkimi
as ---
(1994) Hana no Ran
as Hino Shigeko
(1977) Yokomizo Seishi Series
as ---