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Machiko Kyō

1924-03-25

The 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.

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Rashomon

8.1 average rating
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Ugetsu

7.981 average rating
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Floating Weeds

7.5 average rating
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The Face of Another

7.8 average rating
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Gate of Hell

7.119 average rating
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Street of Shame

7.668 average rating
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Odd Obsession

6.328 average rating
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei

6.741 average rating
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

6.8 average rating
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The Loyal 47 Ronin

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The Third Will

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Brother and Sister

6.6 average rating
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Beauty and the Thief

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The Teahouse of the August Moon

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The Tale of Genji

5.5 average rating
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Bonchi

7 average rating
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Solar Eclipse

6.8 average rating
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Goodbye, Hello

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The Little Runaway

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Clothes of Deception

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