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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.

Kurosawa
as Self

Hana no Ran
as Hino Shigeko

Make-Up
as Tsune Tsutano

Nukata no Ōkimi

Yokomizo Seishi Series

Tora-san's Pure Love
as Aya

The Possessed

Solar Eclipse

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as Self

The Family
as Aiko Takasu

Born Fighter
as Sue Yoshida

Thousand Cranes
as Chikako Kurimoto

The Little Runaway
as Director of the shelter

The Daphne
as Kikuko (the eldest daughter)

The Face of Another
as Mrs. Okuyama

Sweet Sweat
as Umeko

The Third Will
as Fujiyo Yajima

A Woman's Life
as Kei Nunobiki

The Great Wall

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

Black Lizard
as Mrs. Midorikawa

Buddha
as Nandabala

A Design for Dying
as Shikiko Oba

Nuregami botan

Marriageable Age

The Legendary Hell
as Oden Takahashi

The Beloved Image

The Woman Who Touched Legs
as Saya Shiozawa

The Last Betrayal
as Chizuru

Bonchi
as Ofuku

The Wandering Princess
as Ryûko Korinkakura / Hiroko Aishinkakura

A Woman's Testament

Floating Weeds
as Sumiko

Odd Obsession
as Ikuko Kenmochi

Jirocho Fuji
as Okatsu

Paper Pigeon
as Ryoko Kashiwabara

The Woman and the Pirate
as 綾衣

The Makioka Sisters

Goodbye, Hello
as Umeko Ichige

Musume no boken

The Ladder of Success

Tainted Flowers

Ôsaka no onna
as Osen

The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Orui, Spy

Mother
as Takako Ômachi

Sorrow Is Only for Women

Chance Meeting
as Aya Koyanagi

Hole in One
as Nagako Kita

Jigoku bana

Night Butterflies
as Mari

Dancing Girl
as Chiyomi Hanamura

Itohan Monogatari
as Okatsu

Daiei Studio is Bustling

The Teahouse of the August Moon
as Lotus Blossom

Operation Teahouse
as Self

Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Hagino

Street of Shame
as Mickey

A Rainbow at Every Turn

Three Women Around Yoshinaka
as Tomoe

New Women’s Dialogue