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Machiko Kyō

Acting · Born March 25, 1924 · Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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.

Movies with Machiko Kyō

• Rashomon (1950) — Masako
• Ugetsu (1953) — Lady Wakasa
• Street of Shame (1956) — Mickey
• The Face of Another (1966) — Mrs. Okuyama
• The Teahouse of the August Moon (1957) — Lotus Blossom
• Floating Weeds (1959) — Sumiko
• Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975) — Self
• The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960) — Saya Shiozawa
• Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) — Princess Yang Kwei-fei
• Kurosawa (2000) — Self
• The Family (1974) — Aiko Takasu
• Kanojo no tokudane (1952)

TV shows with Machiko Kyō

• Hana no Ran (1994) — Hino Shigeko