
Machiko Kyō
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.439 |
Birthday | 1924-03-25 |
Place of Birth | Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
Also Known As | Machiko Kyô , ماچیکو کیو, |

1950

Rashomon
8.1/2261
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justi...
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Rashomon

1958

Musume no boken
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Musume no boken

1954

A Geisha on Horseback
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Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early...
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A Geisha on Horseback

1966

The Face of Another
7.8/255
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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The Face of Another

1956

Street of Shame
7.7/133
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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Street of Shame

1957

The Teahouse of the August Moon
6/40
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
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The Teahouse of the August Moon

1959

Odd Obsession
6.3/29
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introducti...
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Odd Obsession

1953

Gate of Hell
7.1/86
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but...
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Gate of Hell

1962

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
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Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

1953

Kurohyō
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Kurohyō

1954

Aizen katsura
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1954 Japanese movie
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Aizen katsura

1959

Floating Weeds
7.5/184
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...
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Floating Weeds

1962

The Great Wall
6/2
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted au...
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The Great Wall

1955

Princess Yang Kwei Fei
6.7/57
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei

2000

Kurosawa
6.7/3
Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa
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Kurosawa

1953

Brother and Sister
6.6/15
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
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Brother and Sister

1962

Black Lizard
7.1/9
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
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Black Lizard

1949

Hanakurabe tanuki-den
0/0
Princess Oboro, the queen of the Tanuki palace and stubborn at heart, falls in love with coffeehouse worker Kurotaro at first sight.
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Hanakurabe tanuki-den

1957

Hole in One
6/1
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.
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Hole in One

1949

A Bullet Hole Underground
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A Bullet Hole Underground

1952

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
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A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

1960

The Wandering Princess
6.7/7
Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the in...
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The Wandering Princess

1958

The Ladder of Success
0/0
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to...
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The Ladder of Success

1957

Night Butterflies
6.3/3
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Night Butterflies

1959

女と海賊
0/0
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known a...
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女と海賊

1959

女と海賊
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In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known a...
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女と海賊

1952

Dedication of the Great Buddha
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Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Dedication of the Great Buddha

1954

The Princess Sen
5/1
During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a riv...
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The Princess Sen

1959

Jirocho Fuji
6.8/4
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
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Jirocho Fuji

1976

Tora-san's Pure Love
8.5/2
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...
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Tora-san's Pure Love

1950

The Motherland Far Far Away
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The Motherland Far Far Away

1956

A Rainbow at Every Turn
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Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they ha...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn

1951

The Tale of Genji
5.5/6
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his hea...
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The Tale of Genji

1954

Asakusa at Night
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A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
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Asakusa at Night

1954

A Certain Woman
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A Certain Woman

1974

The Family
10/1
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
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The Family

1961

Buddha
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An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C...
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Buddha

1959

The Makioka Sisters
8/1
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
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The Makioka Sisters

1954

The Story of Shunkin
5/2
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
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The Story of Shunkin

1975

Solar Eclipse
6.8/6
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
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Solar Eclipse

1966

The Little Runaway
1/2
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated i...
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The Little Runaway

1976

The Possessed
0/0
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do...
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The Possessed

1955

New Women’s Dialogue
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A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth...
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New Women’s Dialogue

1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin
6/9
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin

1960

Bonchi
7/2
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give t...
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Bonchi

1960

The Woman Who Touched Legs
6/1
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story abo...
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The Woman Who Touched Legs

1951

The Life of a Horse Trader
7/3
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...
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The Life of a Horse Trader

1956

Three Women Around Yoshinaka
7/1
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of He...
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka

1960

A Woman's Testament
5.8/6
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the s...
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A Woman's Testament

1952

Beauty and the Thief
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The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic...
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Beauty and the Thief

1969

Thousand Cranes
9/1
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life.
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Thousand Cranes

1975

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
6.8/12
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

1957

Jigoku bana
0/0
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
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Jigoku bana

1951

Clothes of Deception
6.5/4
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
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Clothes of Deception

1958

Chance Meeting
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Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is R...
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Chance Meeting

1970

Born Fighter
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Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.
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Born Fighter

1960

The Last Betrayal
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A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.
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The Last Betrayal

1961

Marriageable Age
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Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...
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Marriageable Age

1957

Dancing Girl
6/1
In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment...
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Dancing Girl

1964

Sweet Sweat
0/0
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to ke...
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Sweet Sweat

1959

Goodbye, Hello
6/1
Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
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Goodbye, Hello

1951

The Bitch
0/0
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
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The Bitch

1952

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

1949

A Fool's Love
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A Fool's Love

1966

The Daphne
0/0
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffer...
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The Daphne

1958

Tainted Flowers
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Tainted Flowers

1963

The Third Will
8/2
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
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The Third Will

1961

A Design for Dying
6/1
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shre...
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A Design for Dying

1953

Ugetsu
8/582
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage'...
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Ugetsu

1957

Itohan Monogatari
0/0
Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.
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Itohan Monogatari

1984

Make-Up
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Make-Up

1958

Sorrow Is Only for Women
0/0
The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.
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Sorrow Is Only for Women

1955

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
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A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

1956

Tsukigata Hanpeita
7/1
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita

1961

Nuregami botan
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Nuregami botan

1950

Resurrection
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Resurrection

1960

The Beloved Image
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A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
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The Beloved Image

1949

The Man Who Laughs Last
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The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers g...
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The Man Who Laughs Last

1962

A Woman's Life
0/0
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
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A Woman's Life

1958

Mother
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Mother

1957

Daiei Studio is Bustling
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A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
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Daiei Studio is Bustling

1956

Operation Teahouse
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This short promotional film provides a behind-the-scenes look at "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956).
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