Machiko Kyō
March 25, 1924 · 102 years old
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 Ra…
Known For
9 titles
Rashomon
Three parties and a witness have four versions of a rape/murder in ninth-century Japan.
Ugetsu
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Floating Weeds
The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
Street of Shame
The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.
Ruten no ôhi
A film adaptation of the autobiography of Aishinkakura Hiro, who lived a tumultuous life as the consort of Fuketsu, the younger brother of Emperor Puyi of Manchukuo.