Machiko Kyo

Actor

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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 ...

Filmography

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Kurosawa (2001)

Floating Weeds (1970)

Thousand Cranes (1969)

Chikako Kurimoto

The Daphne (1967)

The Face of Another (1967)

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Rashomon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Have Killed Him

Rashomon (1950) -- 2008 Restoration Trailer

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)

Floating Weeds (1970)

Thousand Cranes (1969)

Chikako Kurimoto

The Daphne (1967)

The Face of Another (1967)

The Great Wall (1965)

Sweet Sweat (1965)

Odd Obsession (1959)

Sayonara, Konnichiwa (1959)

Floating Weeds (1959)

The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

Three Women Around Yoshinaka (1956)

Street of Shame (1956)

The Princess Yang Kwei Fei (1955)

Yokihiko--The Empress

Gate of Hell (1954)

Genji monogatari (1951)

Rashomon (1950)

Masako Kanazawa

Cast (Special)

Kurosawa (2002)

Cast (Short)

Operation Teahouse (1956)

Life Events

Videos

Rashomon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Wouldn't Have Killed Him The first testimony by the bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune), about his meeting the Samurai (Masayuki Mori) and his wife (Machiko Kyo), as the trial begins in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, 1950.

Rashomon (1950) -- (Movie Clip) My Blood Turns Cold The beginning of the testimony of the bereaved wife (Machiko Kyo), about the eventual murder of her husband (Masayuki Mori) by the bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune), in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, 1950.

Odd Obsession (1959) -- (Movie Clip) It Feels Dark Inside Kenmochi (Ganjiro Nakamura), who thinks no one knows about his regimen of virility treatments, encounters their maid, then his much younger wife Ikuko (Machiko Kyo), then their daughter (Junko Kano), who’s kind of engaged to his doctor, in Kon Ichikawa’s provocative Odd Obsession, 1959.

Odd Obsession (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Jealousy Makes Me Feel Much Younger Only Kenmochi (Ganjiro Nakamura) knows what he’s up to, having gotten his wife (Machiko Kyo) drunk at dinner, exposing her to handsome family friend Kimura (Tatsuya) Nakadai, who’s somewhat involved with his daughter (Junko Kano), all in order to arouse his own passion, in Kon Ichikawa’s Odd Obsession, 1959.

Odd Obsession (1959) -- (Movie Clip) He Is Not A Complete Stranger To Me Director and co-screenwriter Kon Ichikawa’s clever opening, Tatsuya Nakadai as young doctor Kimura, first addressing the camera, then tending to somewhat aged patient Kenmochi (Ganjiro Nakamura), who apparently has virility issues, in Odd Obsession, 1959.

Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Lady Wakasa Humble potter Genjuro (Masayuki Mori) is received in the home of the diabolical Lady Wakasa (Machiko Kyo) in a famous scene from Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953.

Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, A New Re-Fashioning Opening sequence from Kenji Mizoguchi's landmark Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953, from stories by Akinari Ueda, starring Masayuki Mori, Kasae Ozawa and Machiko Kyo.

Gate Of Hell (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Who'll Volunteer? Director Teinosuke Kinugasa has established 12th century Japan and a frantic battle sequence, in which loyal courtier Lady Kesa (Michiko Kyo) offers to impersonate her endangered empress, and bombastic samurai Morito (Kazuo Hasegawa) volunteers as her escort, opening Gate Of Hell, 1954.

Gate Of Hell (1954) -- (Movie Clip) She Has Too Much Free Time Machiko Kyo is a married Japanese noblewoman, embarrassed, as word has spread of an admiring samurai, who has requested her hand as a reward, dealing first with a local gossip (Michiko Araki), then her own gracious husband (Waturo Watanabe), in Teinosuke Kinugasa's Gate Of Hell, 1953.

Rashomon (1950) -- 2008 Restoration Trailer Trailer for the release of the 2008 restoration of director Akira Kurosawa’s international breakthrough film, Rashomon, 1950.

Teahouse of the August Moon, The - (Original Trailer) Marlon Brando plays an Okinawan interpreter for the occupying U.S. Army in the comedy The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956).

Teahouse of the August Moon, The - (Original Movie Promo) A behind-the-scenes short on the making of the Marlon Brando - Glenn Ford comedy The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956).

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