Machiko Kyō

Acting

Machiko Kyō

Born 1924-03-25 Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan 99 films

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 …

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Filmography

99 films
Make-Up poster

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Make-Up

★ 10.0 1984

The Possessed poster

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Saw…

The Possessed

★ 7.0 1976

Solar Eclipse poster

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, g…

Solar Eclipse

★ 6.9 1975

The Family poster

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for powe…

The Family

★ 9.0 1974

The Daphne poster

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain…

The Daphne

★ 10.0 1966