Machiko Kyo
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Birth Place
Japan
Born
March 25, 1924
Biography
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Former dancer with the Tokyo Nippon Gekijo who joined the Daiei film company in the late 1940s and gained international recognition with Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950). Over the next two decades Kyo starred in numerous films by some of Japan's greatest directors, including Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu Monogatari" (1953), Kinugasa's "Gate of Hell" (1953), Ichikawa's "Odd Obsession" (1959) and ...
Biography
Former dancer with the Tokyo Nippon Gekijo who joined the Daiei film company in the late 1940s and gained international recognition with Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950). Over the next two decades Kyo starred in numerous films by some of Japan's greatest directors, including Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu Monogatari" (1953), Kinugasa's "Gate of Hell" (1953), Ichikawa's "Odd Obsession" (1959) and Ozu's "Floating Weeds" (1959). Her sole US film was "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956), with Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Kurosawa
(2001)
Kesho
(1985)
Floating Weeds
(1970)
Sumiko
Thousand Cranes
(1969)
Chikako Kurimoto
The Daphne
(1967)
1st daughter
The Face of Another
(1967)
His wife
The Great Wall
(1965)
Sweet Sweat
(1965)
Bar girl
Buddha
(1963)
Nandabala
Bonchi
(1960)
Odd Obsession
(1959)
Ikuko Kenmochi
Sayonara, Konnichiwa
(1959)
Floating Weeds
(1959)
Sumiko
The Teahouse of the August Moon
(1956)
Lotus Blossom
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
(1956)
Street of Shame
(1956)
Mickey
The Princess Yang Kwei Fei
(1955)
Yokihiko--The Empress
Gate of Hell
(1954)
Lady Kesa
Ugetsu
(1953)
Lady Wakasa
Genji monogatari
(1951)
Rashomon
(1950)
Masako Kanazawa
Cast (Special)
Kurosawa
(2002)
Interviewee
Cast (Short)
Operation Teahouse
(1956)
Herself